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Alligator Alcatraz closed. Now its operator will run ICE detention warehouse in Texas

The company that helped run the controversial Florida Everglades detention camp has also been embroiled in lawsuits over claims of wage theft, fraud and data breaches.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has picked one of the companies behind Florida’s infamous Alligator Alcatraz detention camp to operate the agency’s massive detention warehouse planned on San Antonio’s East Side, the Express-News reports. The federal agency awarded the $17.3 billion contract to private prison company GardaWorld Federal Services, the paper reports, citing federal documents. The […]

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