Claims of punishment and torture at Alligator Alcatraz immigration detention center via a cage-like confinement space called "the box" are under investigation by two U.S. senators. The probe, started ...

Amnesty International said Thursday the use of a confined space called the “box” at the migrant detention facility in Florida known as Alligator Alcatraz could amount to torture. The human rights ...

Democratic U.S. Sens. Jon Ossoff and Dick Durbin announced an investigation into claims of torture at Alligator Alcatraz on March 26. Alligator Alcatraz is an immigration detention center in Collier ...

When Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz,” the much more widely used name for the South Florida Detention Facility, went into use in July to detain immigrants swept up in Donald Trump’s ambitiously cruel ...

Buses carrying detained immigrants depart from Alligator Alcatraz at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport on Friday, Aug. 22, 2025, in Ochopee, Fla. A federal judge has ordered the ...