Alligator Alcatraz

The former South Florida Detention Facility, nicknamed 'Alligator Alcatraz', temporarily set up at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport inside Big Cypress National Preserve in Ochopee, Florida, United States, is under investigation by the Department of Homeland Security for violations. The Florida Division of Emergency Management detained non-citizens under Immigration and Customs Enforcement authority from July 2025 to June 2026 at an estimated cost of at least US$1.4 billion in no-bid contracts.

Out of Sight in North Florida: Life Inside Deportation Depot

Advocates say conditions at the former state prison mirror Alligator Alcatraz's worst.

An ICE facility in the Everglades is under scrutiny for the treatment of detainees

Detainees at an ICE facility in the Florida Everglades referred to Alligator Alcatraz allege harsh punishments from guards.

Alligator Alcatraz’s Tiny Cages Were Likely Even Tinier

Appalling as photos showing phone booth–sized cages at the Florida camp are, the truth is likely much worse.

USA: Torture and enforced disappearances in the Sunshine State: Human Rights Violations at "Alligator Alcatraz" and Krome in Florida - Amnesty International

This report presents Amnesty International’s findings from a research trip to southern Florida in September 2025, to document the human rights impacts of federal and state migration and asylum policies on mass detention and deportation, access to due process, and detention conditions since President Trump took office on 20 January 2025. In particular, it focuses […]

USA: Torture and enforced disappearances in the Sunshine State: Human Rights Violations at "Alligator Alcatraz" and Krome in Florida - Amnesty International

This report presents Amnesty International’s findings from a research trip to southern Florida in September 2025, to document the human rights impacts of federal and state migration and asylum policies on mass detention and deportation, access to due process, and detention conditions since President Trump took office on 20 January 2025. In particular, it focuses […]

Torture Techniques from CIA Black Sites Were Used at Alligator Alcatraz

Amnesty International, interviewing migrant detainees, identifies use of the confinement box. There can be no denying it is a torture prison

Tortura y desapariciones forzadas en el estado del sol. Violaciones de derechos humanos en los centros “Alligator Alcatraz” y Krome de Florida - Amnistía Internacional

Este informe presenta las conclusiones de un viaje de investigación realizado por Amnistía Internacional al sur de Florida en septiembre de 2025 para documentar los efectos en materia de derechos humanos de las políticas federales y estatales de migración y asilo sobre detención y deportación masivas, acceso a garantías procesales y condiciones de detención desde […]

Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp | American Civil Liberties Union

The ACLU works in courts, legislatures, and communities to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and the laws of the United States guarantee everyone in this country.

‘Detention Alley’: inside the Ice centres in the US south where foreign students and undocumented migrants languish

Foreign nationals caught up in Trump’s immigration dragnet are transported sometimes thousands of miles away to an isolated network of lockups and courts

ICE Detention Facilities - Directory

This directory provides transparency and information about ICE detention facilities across the United States.