US EditionHuman Rights Watch alleges abuses at Florida immigration detention centers
FLORIDA, JUL 21 – Report finds Florida detention centers hold up to three times capacity with widespread medical neglect and degrading treatment, affecting immigrants mostly without criminal records.
- In a 92-page report released July 21, 2025, Human Rights Watch documented abuses at Krome North Service Processing Center, Broward Transitional Center, and Federal Detention Center in Miami.
- Since President Donald Trump’s second term, Florida detention facilities experienced a surge prompting overcrowding, with detainee levels by June 20 reaching 111 percent above pre-inauguration levels.
- According to detainees, Krome North Service Processing Center detainees were held in freezing, overcrowded cells without bedding, denied hygiene and medical care.
- Human Rights Watch said it requested responses on May 20 and June 11, while only the company operating Krome said `it could not comment publicly`.
- The report urges the U.S. government to end default use of detention, including expanding community alternatives and ensuring medical care, while calling for UN investigation, report says.
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The human rights organization "Human Rights Watch" has criticized the detention conditions for migrants in US deportation prisons.
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republicain-lorrain.frThe report released on Monday by HRW focuses on three detention centres all located in Florida: the Krome North Service Processing Center, the Broward Transitional Center and the Federal Detention Centre in Miami.
In the United States, the NGO Human Rights Watch denounces inhuman conditions of detention in immigration agency prisons. In coordination with several human rights organizations, the organization states in a report published on Monday, 21 July, that undocumented detainees in these prisons claim to have been subjected to degrading treatment.
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Conditions in immigration detention centers in the United States are even worse than previously reported, says a report by Human Rights Watch published on Monday. The paper describes gross and systematic violations of international standards and the U.S. government’s own rules on immigration detention. Continue reading
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