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‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Worker Describes ‘Inhumane’ Conditions

SOUTH FLORIDA, AUG 5 – A whistleblower described overcrowding, poor sanitation, and food contamination at the South Florida facility where a Cuban detainee has been on hunger strike for two weeks.

  • An Alligator Alcatraz worker told NBC6 she’s blowing the whistle on `inhumane conditions` after arriving on July 6 and working for about a week before COVID-19 isolation.
  • Arriving on July 6, Lindsey said she worked about a week at Alligator Alcatraz before catching COVID-19 and being fired, denying allegations of altering medical paperwork.
  • Overcrowding was stark in a tent, with eight large cages holding 35 to 38 inmates each, nearly 300 detainees, and showers every other day or every four days with porta-johns and no hot water half the time.
  • In response to reports, DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said `Any claim that there are subprime conditions at ICE detention centers are false` and discounted overflowing sewage reports.
  • Following reports of flooding, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and President Donald Trump want to see Alligator Alcatraz as a model facility.
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security denied on Monday the existence of a hunger strike at the Alligator Alcatraz detention center, despite the fact that Cuban Pedro Lorenzo Concepción is 14 days without eating food, in protest of the uncertainty in which he is at the hands of the Immigration and Customs Control Service (ICE). The immigrant himself confirmed EL PAÍS in a phone call from Florida that he is “too weak”, but that he keeps the str…

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NBC News broke the news in United States on Tuesday, August 5, 2025.
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