Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Everglades prison ignores both environment and history

June 26, 2025

Last week, Florida’s recently appointed attorney general, James Uthmeier, announced that he had a pretty snazzy idea: Build the state’s biggest immigrant detention center in the middle of the Everglades and call it “Alligator Alcatraz.” (Presumably “Gator Guantánamo” was already taken.) “You don’t need to invest that much in the perimeter. People get out, there’s […] 

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