A federal judge in Florida wants civil rights attorneys and lawyers for the U.S. and Florida to hammer out a settlement in a ...

The state says the legislators don't have a right to visit the controversial immigrant-detention center in the Everglades.

Several people on Monday were released from jail after being arrested during a protest outside of the Krome Detention Center over the weekend.

In her talk, Pastor Neddy Astudillo of Tampa used examples from Florida to describe how environmental racism, human rights, ...

Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration has fired back at a lawsuit filed by Democratic lawmakers seeking access to a controversial ...

Five lawmakers filed the lawsuit in July after they made an unannounced visit to the facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” but ...

Decker, who was on assignment for three news outlets, was covering a protest action by Sunshine Movement, which saw many of ...

A decade ago, when Ian J. Alexander first became interested in studying the U.S. carceral system, imprisonment was a less visible, but by no means unimportant, field of research. Since then, we’ve had ...

Eve Samples, executive director of Friends of the Everglades, is leading a fight against a new detainment center in the Big Cypress National Preserve. The group, along with the Center for Biological ...

Matthew Schwartz is a 72-year-old environmental advocate who founded the South Florida Wild Lands Association. He developed a love for wilderness areas like Big Cypress National Preserve after moving ...

Franklin Adams, 88, grew up hunting and fishing in a wilder south Florida and the Everglades. Adams was instrumental in establishing the Big Cypress National Preserve and worked with environmentalist ...