Homeland Security says a detainee fainted. But other accounts say the man was unconscious. One witness said the guards did not seem to know how to check his pulse.

Florida's corrections agency and ICE updated an agreement on handling federal immigration detainees, but they did it more than a month after ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ opened.

The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Kathleen Williams came after a two-day hearing in a lawsuit filed by environmental groups and joined by the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians.