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Detainees at the notorious Florida immigration jail known as “Alligator Alcatraz” were shackled inside a 2ft-high metal cage and left outside without water for up to a day at a time, a shocking report published on Thursday by Amnesty International alleges.
The human rights group said people held at the state-run Everglades facility, and at Miami’s Krome immigration processing center operated by a private company on behalf of the Trump administration, continued to be exposed to “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment” rising in some cases to torture.
For instance the cage, known to detainees as “the box”, is used by guards for the arbitrary punishment of trivial or nonexistent offenses, according to the report, which was compiled from interviews with detainees and advocacy groups, and a site visit to Krome made by Amnesty workers in September. “It’s a box outside, exposed to the south Florida sun and humidity, and exposed to mosquitoes,” one detainee said.
A separate July report by Human Rights Watch alleged detainees were shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and made to kneel to eat food from Styrofoam plates “like dogs”.
Didn’t a judge order the facility to shut down?
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