DeSantis on ‘Alligator Alcatraz’: ‘We’ve saved taxpayers money’

By: Liv Caputo

Outlets: Florida Phoenix

Published: May 13, 2026

Words: 628

Last Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago

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As Florida prepares to wind down the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” lockup amid high costs and claims that it’s now obsolete, Gov. Ron DeSantis reflected Wednesday on the remote facility’s nine-month run.

“We’ve saved taxpayers money,” he told onlookers at an unrelated Brevard County press conference. “We’ve saved taxpayers from medical care and schooling [of undocumented immigrants] and all these different things. … I’d rather do what’s right, and I’d rather protect the people that I …

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