Alligator Alcatraz

A report issued Friday said that inspectors making an unannounced inspection of the site near Ochopee in January found that detention center staff could not clearly identify which detention standards they used for holding detainees on immigration-related charges. There were also concerns over small metal cages used for confinement at the site.

State lawmakers received an accounting less than an hour before a budget meeting to decide whether to hand over more tax dollars.

A pair of private, for-profit companies involved in the controversial operations and medical care at Alligator Alcatraz are positioning themselves as potential contractors for at least five new adult detention facilities sought by the Florida Highway Patrol.

An appeals court initially allowed the detention center to keep operating after proceeding on the understanding that Florida had not applied for federal funding, even though records obtained later show the state already had

In response to the dismantling of air-polluting generators at the immigrant detention center in Big Cypress National Preserve, the Center for Biological Diversity Monday concluded its lawsuit challenging dangerous air pollution from the facility.

Media reports indicated the detention site would be sold to the National Park Service.

Despite news that the last detainee is gone from the immigration detention facility known as Alligator Alcatraz, the environmental groups that sued to shut it down gathered online Wednesday to make it known that they are nowhere near done.

U.S. Rep. Maxwell Frost visited the detention center on Tuesday. He said based on what he saw, he believes the center is winding down.

A lawsuit filed today by the Center for Biological Diversity against the Florida Division of Emergency Management targets the immigration detention center in the Everglades in eastern Collier County and cites what it terms as "substantial, unpermitted pollution from diesel generators and other air-polluting equipment that have supported the facility since operations began in June 2025."

An expected $58.2 million initial payment is a fraction of the state’s spending on the Everglades facility.