The state-run immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz” violated a host of federal and state detention standards, according to a new government report.
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DeSantis defended the use of the detention center, stating the facility had been inspected and defended the state’s immigration enforcement tactics. He also claimed only illegal migrants with "serious issues" were detained there.
Some immigrant detainees held at Florida’s now-shuttered “Alligator Alcatraz” were confined for up to two hours inside outdoor cages only slightly larger than a telephone booth, according to a new report by the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general.
WASHINGTON — Some immigrants detained at Florida’s now-shuttered “Alligator Alcatraz” were confined in outdoor cages only slightly larger than telephone booths for more than an hour at a time, according to a new report by the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general.
DHS OIG found 79 Alligator Alcatraz detainees held in 4-by-4-foot outdoor metal cages and 18-sq-ft enclosures, a practice it called unprecedented and not aligned with humane standards.
By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN (CNN) — Nearly 80 immigrant detainees who were held at Florida’s makeshift detention center, known as Alligator Alcatraz, were briefly held in small metal enclosures for “periods ranging from several minutes to nearly 2 hours,” according to a federal watchdog report The Dep…
A new report from the Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General found that some immigration detainees at the now-shuttered Alligator Alcatraz facility were confined to outdoor cages just slightly larger than phone booths for more than an hour at a time.
A new report from the Department of Homeland Security's Inspector General found that some immigration detainees at the now-shuttered Alligator Alcatraz facility were confined to outdoor cages just slightly larger than phone booths for more than an hour at a time.
The Office of the Inspector General described the practice as unlike anything its inspectors had witnessed at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility.
The facility’s staff referred to the enclosures as “calming areas.” Investigators said their use violated federal standards and did not align with “standards for humane treatment.”
Office of inspector general’s report says practice at Florida immigration jail is not aligned with ‘humane treatment’ Before the facility was shuttered , detainees at Florida ’s “Alligator Alcatraz” federal immigration jail were frequently locked in outside metal cages no bigger than a phone booth, …
A new report reviewing the conditions at the now-closed "Alligator Alcatraz" center in Florida slammed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for failing to meet a variety of federal standards, describing “unprecedented” treatment of migrants, including containing them in cages about the siz…
Nearly 80 detainees were held in small metal cages at the Everglades detention site state leaders called “Alligator Alcatraz,” according to a new report by the Department of Homeland Security’s independent watchdog.
Staff at Alligator Alcatraz called them “calming areas.” They were really cages. A new report Monday revealed that the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General discovered two metal cages, roughly the size of a phone booth, where immigrant detainees were kept at Alligator Alc…
Alligator Alcatraz, the notorious immigrant detention camp erected in the Florida Everglades last year, routinely held detainees in “small metal enclosures” with just 18 square feet of floor space, a practice that the Department of Homeland Security’s independent watchdog called “highly unconvention…
MIAMI (AP) — Detainees at a now-closed immigrant detention center in the Florida Everglades — known as “Alligator Alcatraz” — were held for up to two hours in small metal enclosures used as “calming areas,” a practice that “does not meet standards for humane treatment,” according to a new report by …
DHS's internal watchdog is sharply criticizing conditions in a Florida immigration detention center dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," finding detainees at the now-closed facility were held in "cramped conditions."
A first-of-its-kind state-run immigrant detention site in the Florida Everglades, known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” shut down earlier this summer shortly after a team of federal auditors found the facility failed to meet a number of detention standards.
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