"You don't expect them to be used in countries that have reasonable rule of law standards," said Juan E. Méndez, a former ...

A new report from the Department of Homeland Security's independent inspector general has revealed that the now-shuttered Florida detention center known as ...

The Department of Homeland Security’s internal watchdog provided new details about conditions at the now-shuttered Florida detention center.

Nearly 80 immigrant detainees who were held at Florida’s makeshift detention center, known as Alligator Alcatraz, were briefly held in small metal enclosures for “periods ranging from several minutes ...

A surprise inspection at the infamous, and now shut-down, Alligator Alcatraz detention facility reveals the below-standard conditions detainees faced.

Detainees at the now-shuttered immigration facility in Florida known as "Alligator Alcatraz" were held at times in metal cages the size of phone booths, according to a new report.The enclosures were ...

Detainees at Alligator Alcatraz lived in cramped metal cages, drank dirty water, showered in bug-infested bathrooms and were subjected ...

DHS inspectors say they found the immigration-detention centre violated basic standards for hygiene, medical care, food and safety.

Florida’s governor is seeking to downplay the DHS’ findings about the treatment of immigrant detainees at his state’s ...

The new report cited 'significant risks' to migrants' health and safety at the Everglades immigration detention center.

For around 15 hours, immigration detention officers kept Raúl Suárez Herrero confined in a cage slightly larger than a phone booth, where he feared snakes and endured mosquitoes in the middle of ...

A report from the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general found that some immigrants detained at the now-shuttered "Alligator Alcatraz" were at times confined to cages roughly the size of ...