Tag Archives: Alcatraz

Contracts reveal the big business of building and operating Alligator Alcatraz  Miami Herald Detainee accounts of Alligator Alcatraz conditions: Fungus, mosquitoes and lack of food  NBC News Groups Sue Trump Administration Over Lack of Access to Counsel for People Held at Florida’s Notorious Everglades Immigration Detention Center  American Civil Liberties Union Florida signs $245 million in contracts for ‘Alligator Alcatraz.’ Here’s a look …

Florida’s top emergency official asked a federal judge on Monday to resist a request by environmentalists to halt an immigration detention center known as “Alligator Alcatraz” in the middle of the Florida Everglades because their lawsuit was filed in the wrong jurisdiction. Even though the property is owned by Miami-Dade County, Florida’s southern district is the wrong venue for the …

Alligator Alcatraz, Florida’s hastily built, $225 million-and-counting immigrant detention facility in the Everglades, is both a de facto concentration camp and a right-wing meme. President Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters are willing to excuse — or are in some cases reveling in — allegations of inhumane treatment at the facility: worms in food, floors flooded with fecal water, fluorescent lights …

When asked if he would be reporting his positive experience back to the president, Burgum didn’t give a direct answer but said that within the Department of the Interior, the model the Presidio uses to fundraise and function “is something we have to look at.” When Congress created the Presidio Trust in 1996, it provided federal money to aid the …

Scoop: Trump’s new Alcatraz could cost $2 billion  Axios Burgum, Bondi Tour Alcatraz to Launch Trump Plan to Reopen Site as Federal Prison  KQED Trump’s Plan to Reopen Alcatraz Appears to Move Forward With Officials’ Visit  The New York Times Trump administration confirms plans to reopen Alcatraz  KTVU Trump officials tour Alcatraz in bid to reopen prison amid outcry from California leaders  The Guardian Source …

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration left many local officials in the dark about the immigration detention center that rose from an isolated airstrip in the Everglades, emails obtained by The Associated Press show, while relying on an executive order to seize the land, hire contractors and bypass laws and regulations. The emails show that local officials …

Trump’s Plan to Reopen Alcatraz Appears to Move Forward With Officials’ Visit  The New York Times Trump administration confirms plans to reopen Alcatraz  KTVU ‘Stupidest initiative yet’: Nancy Pelosi blasts effort to reopen Alcatraz as prison  NBC Bay Area California Dems brace for Bondi, Burgum to visit Alcatraz  Politico AG Pam Bondi in San Francisco visiting Alcatraz to announce Trump admin’s reopening plans as …

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration left many local officials in the dark about the immigration detention center that rose from an isolated airstrip in the Everglades, emails obtained by The Associated Press show, while relying on an executive order to seize the land, hire contractors and bypass laws and regulations. The emails show that local officials …

Two federal officials toured the infamous Alcatraz penitentiary in the San Francisco Bay early Thursday morning as part of the Trump administration’s effort to reopen the infamous island prison, a move that critics say would be more expensive than building a new prison. U.S. Atty. Gen. Pam Bondi and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum visited Alcatraz before the rush of tourists …

Bondi, other Trump officials arrive at S.F.’s Alcatraz to push reopening of prison  San Francisco Chronicle AG Pam Bondi in San Francisco visiting Alcatraz to announce Trump admin’s reopening plans as Nancy Pelosi blasts ‘stupidest’ idea  ABC7 San Francisco Trump administration confirms plans to reopen Alcatraz  KTVU Attorney General Bondi visits Alcatraz as Trump floats idea of reopening the former federal prison  CNN California …