ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A federal judge has put a stop to further expansion of the immigration detention center built in the ...

The judge ordered that current detainees be transferred and that much of the lighting, fencing and other materials at the site be removed within 60 days.

A federal judge has blocked state and federal officials from sending any more detainees to the controversial immigration facility in the Florida Everglades, widely dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.” The ...

A judge ruled that the state and federal governments acted illegally by not conducting an environmental review before ...

Last month, during a visit to the Florida facilities, U.S. President Donald Trump joked that prisoners who attempted to ...

The contested migrant detention center is the first of its kind in the US, but other states are interested in building similar sites of their own ...

Plans to use Indiana’s “Speedway Slammer,” Louisiana’s Angola and other state prisons to house ICE detainees raise ...

Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) on Wednesday said private prison employees would have to answer to their treatment of inmates amid ...

The president of Nebraska's correctional employees union said he "of course" has some concerns on prison capacity after the announcement of the "Cornhusker Clink.""We always make it work," he said.

Douglas County Commissioner Roger Garcia said the announcement hurt the Hispanic community saying, “it's not going to build relationships, it's going to do harm.” ...

The facility in Appleton has a capacity of 1,600 people, which would make it one of the nation’s largest immigration ...