US EditionFlorida’s Alligator Alcatraz ‘box’ may amount to torture, says Amnesty International
- On Thursday, Amnesty International released a report alleging human rights violations amounting to torture and enforced disappearances at Krome North Service Processing Center and Alligator Alcatraz, based on a September 2025 research mission by Amnesty researchers.
- Policy shifts and emergency powers in Florida led to the state greatly expanding detention, with over 50% increase since January 2025 and $360 million in no-bid contracts for Alligator Alcatraz.
- Detainees described unsanitary conditions, including overflowing toilets, maggot-infested food, `stadium lights` on 24/7, and medical neglect like a 37-day wait, with one saying, `It's a disaster if you want to see the doctor`.
- Amnesty will send the report to U.S. Congress and the United Nations later this week, demanding independent investigations while Florida governor's office and Department of Homeland Security denied wrongdoing and called the report fabrications.
- Four people—Ramesh Amechand, Genry Ruiz Guillen, Maksym Chernyak, and Isidro Pérez—have died this year at Krome, while nearly 1,000 men at Alligator Alcatraz vanished from ICE records.
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Miami HeraldHuman rights report, art exhibit allege inhumane conditions at Alligator Alcatraz
The human rights organization accuses the federal government of “chronic medical neglect” at Krome, and the DeSantis administration of “torture and ill-treatment” at Alligator Alcatraz.
Alligator Alcatraz 'Meets the Definition of Torture Under International Law', Amnesty International Claims
"People have to stay there for hours shackled and denied food and water as a form of punishment," said the organization's director for refugee and migrant rights
Amnesty International alleges human rights violations at Alligator Alcatraz
Enforcing what Gov. Ron DeSantis calls the “rule of law” violates international law and norms, according to a global group weighing in this week. Amnesty International is the latest group to condemn the treatment of immigrants with disputed documentation at two South Florida lockups, the Krome North Service Processing Center (Krome) and the Everglades Detention Facility (Alligator Alcatraz). The latter has been a priority of state government sin…
Amnesty International report details torture, abuse at immigration detention camps in Florida
Immigrants held at the still-operational state-run “Alligator Alcatraz” report that sadistic guards use the “box,” a two-by-two-foot cage, for punishment. Individuals placed inside are shackled by their hands and feet to the ground for hours with virtually no protection from the elements, insects or wildlife.
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