Nearly two months after the hasty and controversial birth of “Alligator Alcatraz,” a federal judge has slammed the brakes on ...

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 halted further expansion of the immigration detention center known as "Alligator Alcatraz" in the Florida ...

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 escape would need to learn how to dodge alligators.

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.

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

South Florida U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and Oregon U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley have written a letter calling on the heads ...