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 NEW: DHS's Inspector General releases a scathing report about the Everglades detention camp known as "Alligator Alcatraz." The OIG finds that the now-closed camp, violated multiple ICE standards.
09/14/26 10:45 AM
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The OIG also confirms detainees were punished with placement in a metal cage in the Florida heat
The DHS OIG finds that Florida's Alligator Alcatraz failed to meet SIX different categories of detention standards:
- Medical Care
- Food Service
- Personal Hygiene
- Recreation
- Environmental Health and Safety
- Special Management Units
The OIG finds that each person detained at Alligator Alcatraz was in cells offering just 28 square feet per detainee, less than half than the 75 required.
People could only leave their cells a few times per day, and were only allowed showers 3 times per week
Next, the OIG says that people held in segregation were locked in tiny individual metal cages inside a building, held with no TV, no reading materials, no law library, no recreation, and no access to phones to call their lawyers.
All of this wildly violated ICE standards.
DHS's OIG also confirms people were punished in tiny outdoor cages. We knew they existed but had never seen pictures.
The OIG calls these outdoor metal cages "unprecedented" and "highly unconventional," and says they were a "significant risk[] to detainee health and well-being."
Data that Florida gave the DHS OIG says that people were never held in the cells for more than two hours, and the average stay was almost exactly 1 hour. The OIG notes that there were allegations of significantly longer stays, but was unable to confirm them.
Take Florida's data for what you will.
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