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Florida's DeSantis unveils new immigration detention center dubbed 'Deportation Depot' to expand deportations.
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) on Wednesday said private prison employees would have to answer to their treatment of inmates amid the Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration and as more detention facilities may pop up around the U.
Immigration attorneys and advocates are raising concerns about what they say are inhumane conditions at the "Alligator Alcatraz" migrant detention center.
Nebraska’s version of the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration detention center appears to be headed for the southwestern part of the state, Red Willow County. President Donald Trump’s administration is set to build or create a major center to hold migrants in McCook,
The government] is running roughshod over the most basic constitutional rights that people have when they are in government custody,” Eunice Cho, senior counsel with the ACLU’s National Prison Project,
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New York Magazine on MSN‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Is Worse Than You Realize
Erected on an abandoned airstrip known as the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, the temporary tent city was thrown together in just eight days after Florida authorities presented the federal government with a “marketing pitch” inspired by President Donald Trump longing for the reopening of the original Alcatraz.
The Miami Correctional Facility, a maximum-security prison located at the former Grissom Air Force Base about 70 miles north of Indianapolis, can house up to 3,100 people. Annie Goeller, chief communications officer for IDOC, said part of the facility has not been filled because of a staffing shortage.
Upon emerging from sprawling facility, Democrats and Republicans provided vastly different accounts of what they saw within.
A federal judge heard arguments Monday but declined to make an immediate ruling about the legal conditions of detainees at “Alligator Alcatraz.”