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

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.

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.

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

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 […]

Out of Sight in North Florida: Life Inside Deportation Depot

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

ICE sued over “inhumane” conditions at Camp East Montana in West Texas

The El Paso tent camp has seen at least three detainee deaths, a measles outbreak and nearly 50 detention standards violations in less than a year of operation.

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.

Inside ICE’s Broken System for Inspecting Detention Facilities

New data reveals a twisted ICE detention oversight system where facilities get glowing grades, even amid deadly conditions.

More Than 90 Percent Of ICE Detainees Have Never Been Convicted Of Violent Crimes

To call the administration’s “worst of the worst” claims a ruse is to give this administration too much credit. It’s not clever enough to run a con. Going after criminals wa…

Guantanamo Bay: “Ugly chapter of unrelenting human rights violations” – UN experts

GENEVA (10 January 2022) - On the 20th anniversary of the arrival of the first detainees at Guantanamo Bay detention facility in Cuba, UN experts* condemned the facility as a site of “unparalleled notoriety” and said its continued operation was a stain on the US Government’s commitment to the rule of law.

Guantanamo Detainee Was Tortured, Says Official Overseeing Military Trials

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ICE Detention Facilities - Directory

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

Advocates, watchdog launch investigation into ICE’s response to hunger strike at Folkston detention center

FOLKSTON, GA – Today, American Oversight, Amica Center for Immigrant Rights, and Asian Americans Advancing Justice-Atlanta launched an investigation into Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE’s)…