‘Alligator Alcatraz’ suddenly shuttered following DHS auditor’s report

A first-of-its-kind state-run immigrant detention site in the Florida Everglades, known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” shut down earlier this summer shortly after a team of federal auditors found the facility failed to meet a number of detention standards. A new Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General report about the conditions inside the 1,500-bed tent […]