Camp Fear

Florida's troubled tent city has inspired copycats across the country.

- BY LAURA C. MOREL AND IAN GORDON

WHEN THE Alligator Alcatraz detention center was announced by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier in June, he explained the site was chosen because of its remote location deep in the Everglades: “People get out, there's not much waiting for them other than alligators and pythons. Nowhere to go, nowhere to hide.”