'Failed experiment in human suffering': Alligator Alcatraz immigration jail to close

[babylonsister]

‘Failed experiment in human suffering’: Alligator Alcatraz immigration jail to close
State officials told vendors at the facility to prepare for a breakdown of the tented camp beginning next month
Richard Luscombe in Miami
Wed 13 May 2026 10.34 EDT


An alliance of environmental groups and immigration advocates has welcomed what looks to be the imminent closure of Alligator Alcatraz, the notorious immigration jail in the remote Florida Everglades celebrated by Donald Trump for its harsh conditions.

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Human rights groups have complained about cruel and inhumane conditions there, including torture, forced disappearances, and denial of legal representation. State and federal officials have denied the mistreatment of any of the 22,000 detainees who have passed through since last July.

Separately, environmental advocates have pursued a lawsuit seeking the camp’s closure, arguing its hasty construction on the site of a training airport caused irreparable damage to the fragile wetlands of the Everglades and ancient homelands of the Miccosukee tribe.

“Alligator Alcatraz is a stain on our nation and a blight on the Everglades, and I look forward to watching this depraved facility bite the dust,” said Elise Bennett, Florida and Caribbean director and attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/13/alligator-alcatraz-south-florida-detention-center-closure

[BlueTsunami2018]

1. Are they saying they didn't make people suffer enough?

Because it sounds like a fairly successful experiment in human suffering. Not Unit 731 levels but pretty horrible nonetheless.

Weird headline.

[peggysue2]

3. I had never heard of Unit 731

I looked it up. Almost sorry I did.

Ghastly!

I knew there was widespread Japanese-directed torture during WWII executed particularly against the Chinese population.

But this? What an absolute horror.

As for Alligator Alcatraz? I thought they were going to close the site earlier. The very fact it existed is an indelible stain on the United States. All those who participated in the camp's creation should be prosecuted once this Administration is defeated.

[Solly Mack]

2. So many stains, too much bleach up the ass instead of where it needs to be.

[brakester]

4. Thanks for the history lesson, babylonsister!

AA. is definitely a plague, a cancer and flesh-eating bacteria. It disgusts, shames and destroys any scrap of a reputation that honorable politicians and good people have so carefully built up over decades.

[Blue Full Moon]

5. Every single cent spent needs to be returned.

Embezzlement only. Should have never been allowed to been built.

[twodogsbarking]

6. Couldn't it be used to someday house the "Trump Administration" and Trump?

[louis-t]

7. Hiding the evidence.

[Wounded Bear]

8. Thought they were closing that hell hole months ago...

WTF?

[malaise]

9. Great news

Rec

[purr-rat beauty]

10. Now, we deserve a full audit

They're building this shit to skim from the cost

And

Investigate and charge everyone affiliated with this concentration camp including the Governor.