Gov. Ron DeSantis has said the location in the rugged and remote Everglades was meant as a deterrent against escape, much like the island prison in California that Republicans named it after. The detention center has an estimated annual cost of $450 million, according to a public database.

On a sweltering afternoon in the Everglades, faith and activism intersected — as the nonprofit Guatemalan Maya Center organized a Catholic mass outside Alligator Alcatraz, the remote immigration detention center.

An alligator made a meal out of an invasive Burmese python at Shark Valley in the Florida Everglades, near Alligator Alcatraz, an ICE detention center

Florida's DeSantis unveils new immigration detention center dubbed 'Deportation Depot' to expand deportations.

Alligator Alcatraz, the notorious immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades, has been hit by repeated respiratory outbreaks most likely caused by COVID-19. Prisoners report inhumane conditions and denied medical care,