Officials Called Alligator Alcatraz’s ‘Box’ a Hoax. Detainees Called It Torture
The watchdog said two cages measured about 4 feet by 4 feet, while detainees alleged they were used as punishment for hours.
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Former ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ detainee says he was placed in phone booth-sized cage for 15 hours
For around 15 hours, immigration detention officers kept Raúl Suárez Herrero confined in a cage slightly larger than a phone booth, where he feared snakes and endured mosquitoes in the middle of Florida swampland, the former detainee alleged.
DHS Oversight Agency Issues Scathing Report of Conditions at 'Alligator Alcatraz'
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) own Office of Inspector General (OIG), an office that seeks to provide independent oversight and accountability within the department, issued a damning report last week about the conditions of confinement at Florida’s soft-sided immigration detention facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz.” The report described the troubling conditions OIG found […]
Officials called Alligator Alcatraz’s ‘box’ a hoax. Detainees called it torture
At a state-run detention facility known as Alligator Alcatraz, immigrant detainees had different names for the roughly 4 feet by 4 feet cages in which officers left men shackled for hours in the Florida Everglades.
The controversial detention center for immigrants in the United States, although it has been closed, continues to fuel controversy. From the beginning have been reported behaviors and general conditions worrying for prisoners, defined by Amnesty International of real tortures. The staff, however, has always denied the accusations and defined the center a [...] The article An ex-inmate of the Alligator Alcatraz tells of his experience: "I seemed …
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