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Alligator Alcatraz opened in July 2025 as the South Florida Detention Facility and quickly became the center of lawsuits and a federal judge’s order to wind down operations within 60 days — a ruling t...
Alligator Alcatraz — officially the South Florida Detention Facility — is located at the Dade‑Collier Training and Transition Airport inside Big Cypress National Preserve near Ochopee in the Florida E...
The term "Alligator Alley" refers to a new South Florida immigration detention facility officially opened on July 3, 2025, locally nicknamed because of its remote Everglades location and harsh reporte...
A federal judge ordered Alligator Alcatraz — the South Florida Detention Facility in the Everglades — to stop taking new detainees and to wind down operations within roughly 60 days after finding the ...
Available reporting and investigations make no mention of any former Alligator Alcatraz locations having reopened under a different name or ownership; the facility—officially called the South Florida ...
Alligator Alcatraz is a state-run immigrant detention site in the Florida Everglades that opened in July 2025 and was rapidly staffed and populated within weeks . The facility has been the subject of ...