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BumRushDaShow

(165,170 posts)
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 03:05 PM Dec 4

Detainees at 'Alligator Alcatraz' facing 'harrowing human right violations', new report alleges

Source: The Guardian

Thu 4 Dec 2025 00.05 EST
Last modified on Thu 4 Dec 2025 13.56 EST


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 migrants 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, continue to be exposed to “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment” rising in some cases to torture.

The cage, known to detainees as “the box”, is used by guards for the arbitrary punishment of trivial or non-existent offenses, according to the report 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 mosquitos,” one detainee told the group. “One time, two people in my cell were calling out to the guards telling them that I needed my medication. Ten guards rushed into the cell and threw them to the ground. They were taken to the ‘box’ and punished just for trying to help me. I saw a guy who was put in it for an entire day.”

The Florida department of emergency management (DEM) operates “Alligator Alcatraz” independently of federal facilities under the umbrella of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/04/alligator-alcatraz-human-right-violations-amnesty-report



Link to Amnesty International REPORT - Torture and Enforced Disappearances in the Sunshine State: Human Rights Violations at “Alligator Alcatraz” and Krome in Florida
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Detainees at 'Alligator Alcatraz' facing 'harrowing human right violations', new report alleges (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Dec 4 OP
Guardian headline should be faced not facing underpants Dec 4 #1
From the article it seems it is still operating? I thought a judge closed it, but then again, this administration Escurumbele Dec 4 #15
I stand corrected. I didn't read enough of the article underpants Dec 4 #16
I thought the same thing peggysue2 Dec 5 #20
When this is over, those people running this abomination MUST be held to account... Moostache Dec 4 #2
Their behavior shows what their punishment should be. dickthegrouch Dec 4 #18
Guardian often has articles such as this that our MSM buries or doesn't report on. nt wiggs Dec 4 #3
These psychos and the animals who support them, FalloutShelter Dec 4 #4
I think... GiqueCee Dec 4 #12
What the hell.......... popsdenver Dec 4 #14
I thought a judge ordered it closed months ago. 1WorldHope Dec 4 #5
REad the article. It explains it. Amaryllis Dec 4 #7
The lower court closed it, the 11th Circuit Appellate Court said "not so fast" and put a stay on the lower court BumRushDaShow Dec 4 #8
Reminder: Republicans do not consider them human. ananda Dec 4 #6
toe n/t sammythecat Dec 4 #9
No one will be prosecuted for it ‼️ flying-skeleton Dec 4 #10
... ancianita Dec 5 #21
If Floridians... GiqueCee Dec 4 #11
Well the Guardian has an international readership, might just see even less tourism to US Bev54 Dec 4 #13
Motherf*ckers are subjecting them to torturous Buddyzbuddy Dec 4 #17
A concentration camp thought crime Dec 4 #19
We have concentration camps on our soil expanding every day, thanks to the massive ICE funding in BBB. Evolve Dammit Dec 5 #22

Escurumbele

(4,001 posts)
15. From the article it seems it is still operating? I thought a judge closed it, but then again, this administration
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 05:56 PM
Dec 4

is notorious for ignoring judges orders and the rule of law.

peggysue2

(12,369 posts)
20. I thought the same thing
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 12:28 AM
Dec 5

That a court order closed this operation down. The Administration is still operating this horror chamber?

My God! Once this comes to an end (and it will), the people responsible for these crimes against humanity need to be brought to justice. They should use the same standard the infamous, macho-warrior Hegseth presumably uses:

No Quarter.

Moostache

(10,958 posts)
2. When this is over, those people running this abomination MUST be held to account...
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 03:09 PM
Dec 4

These are crimes against humanity and if the Democratic candidate in 2028 does not promise to remand these people and turn them over to The Hague for trials, I may be done with this nation and its withered, rotted soul.

dickthegrouch

(4,257 posts)
18. Their behavior shows what their punishment should be.
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 09:54 PM
Dec 4

Treat others as you wish to be treated.

(To ICE) Be careful what you put out there. It could come back to you.

GiqueCee

(3,309 posts)
12. I think...
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 04:56 PM
Dec 4

... we have to employ the past tense now. 'that WAS America'. In the inimitable words of John Lennon: The dream is over.

popsdenver

(1,420 posts)
14. What the hell..........
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 05:46 PM
Dec 4

Abu Graib? under Cheney/Rumsfeld took place and nothing was done.........So why doesn't anyone believe this could happen again...........
You are correct FS, the entire Trump/Republican CABAL is hell bent on destroying America with orders coming from Putin directly to Trump........
A friend is a naturalized Russian, who talks often with his family in Russia. I asked him what the Russian people thought about what was going on in the USA. He said they are all laughing at how easily Putin has PLAYED Trump and the Republicans.......And that Putin is destroying the U.S. Economy, the Constitution, law and order, and the citizens, without him having to start a war with the U.S. or fire a single rocket or missile......

BumRushDaShow

(165,170 posts)
8. The lower court closed it, the 11th Circuit Appellate Court said "not so fast" and put a stay on the lower court
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 04:39 PM
Dec 4
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143524085

So it is still operating "while the appeals play out".

ananda

(34,307 posts)
6. Reminder: Republicans do not consider them human.
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 04:26 PM
Dec 4

Only rich white people are human, if they tow the fascist line.

flying-skeleton

(809 posts)
10. No one will be prosecuted for it ‼️
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 04:47 PM
Dec 4

As usual, no one will be prosecuted for it‼️
Reps of course will ignore it.
Dems are incapable. Merrick Garland anyone‼️

ancianita

(42,763 posts)
21. ...
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 02:47 PM
Dec 5

Dude. What the hell does Merrick Garland have to do with it. Pam f'n Bondi is the current AG, not Garland. Get a grip on your memory.

GiqueCee

(3,309 posts)
11. If Floridians...
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 04:51 PM
Dec 4

... elect a psychopath for governor, they should expect to see, if not be the victims of, the psychotic pathologies that come with it.
Buyer's remorse much?

Bev54

(13,152 posts)
13. Well the Guardian has an international readership, might just see even less tourism to US
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 05:23 PM
Dec 4

Not many people are going to be like, "Fuck Yeah, give me some of that". I have travelled to countries with some pretty sketchy laws but I never worried about it as long as I was careful and did not break any laws but the US it could be just because I travelled there as a non-citizen that could land me into one of those disdainful, torturous lockups. I cannot imagine living in the hell your are living right now, we have had several Canadians held, including children under 4, not sure how many are still in detention centres.

Buddyzbuddy

(2,049 posts)
17. Motherf*ckers are subjecting them to torturous
Thu Dec 4, 2025, 06:45 PM
Dec 4

inhumane conditions by putting them in what can be considered a dog kennel for medium size dogs.

Those are the places our military should be attacking. Democrats better damn well put an end to this sh*t when they get back in power like they should have done before. No delay, no wait and see attitude no f*cking diplomacy arrest, conviction, incarceration in that order.
End ICE, PRIVATE PRISONS and PRIVATE MILITARY. Cut the defense budget, end the industrial military complex. YESTERDAY.

Evolve Dammit

(21,420 posts)
22. We have concentration camps on our soil expanding every day, thanks to the massive ICE funding in BBB.
Fri Dec 5, 2025, 06:33 PM
Dec 5
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