Florida bishop denounces ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
July 08, 2025
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CWN Editor's Note: Bishop Frank Dewane of Venice, Florida, has denounced the opening of the “Alligator Alcatraz” prison in Florida in dramatic terms, even comparing it to the gulags of the Soviet Union.
Bishop Dewane, in an interview with The Pillar, said that the use of the term “Alligator Alcatraz”—to “advertise the fact that there are pythons and alligators out there guarding it”—causes fears that “no human being really deserves.”
The prisoners who might be assigned to the institution “may have violated the law, but they are not serious criminals,” the bishop continued. He questioned whether the references to wild animals was a throwback to the bloody spectacle of executions in the Colosseum of Rome, and remarked: “We consider Rome not to be a particularly civilized society.”
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