Alligator Alcatraz was built and opened in a matter of eight days at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in the middle of the Florida Everglades. Lawmakers at the county, state and federal levels had been asking to see the inside of the facility after detainees claimed there were "inhumane" conditions.

Days without a shower or prescription medicine.

But detainees and their relatives and advocates have told The Associated Press that conditions are awful, with worm-infested food, toilets overflowing onto floors, mosquitoes buzzing around the fenced...