Investigates is learning more about the private company the state is paying millions to run Alligator Alcatraz.

A class-action lawsuit filed Wednesday alleges that people held at the immigrant-detention center dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” are being prevented from having access to lawyers and “effectively have no way to contest their detention.

The state of Florida has opened a migrant detention center in the Everglades. Its official name is Alligator Alcatraz, a reference to the former maximum security federal penitentiary in San Francisco Bay.

Florida's Executive Director for the Division of Emergency Management called out Democrats earlier this week for misrepresenting conditions at the new detention facility known as "Alligator Alcatraz" and overreacting to score political points.

Jacksonville-based company CRS has secured 45 state contracts since its creation, mostly dealing with disaster relief work and medical staffing. That history is making some question why it has been hired to staff Alligator Alcatraz.

Top Florida Democrats issued blistering responses on Wednesday following a TPM report that detailed how Sunshine State Gov. Ron DeSantis diverted “disaster preparedness” resources in the rush to build the “Alligator Alcatraz” migrant detention camp.

Alligator Alcatraz’ is visual policy aimed to stage terror as a message while making Donald Trump’s authoritarian and fascist politics a material reality.

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem has announced that five Republican-led states are in active discussions with the federal government to replicate Florida's recently opened migrant detention facility,