Out of Sight in North Florida: Life Inside Deportation Depot

Source Scout · Mother Jones reports: Mother Jones illustration; Gary McCullough/AP, Rebecca Blackwell/AP Last month, I wrote about a DHS Office of Inspector General report that revealed alarming conditions inside Alligator Alcatraz, an immigrant detention center opened last summer in the Everglades that held up to 1,500 people. Among the worst violations was the use of metal cages as “calming areas” where detainees were often held, the report stated . As Corene Kendrick, deputy director at the ACLU’s National Prison Project, told me then, the report “reaffirms the cruelty of Alligator Alcatraz.” Alligator Alcatraz is now closed.

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