Overview
- The report cites detainee accounts of a 2-by-2-foot outdoor metal box at “Alligator Alcatraz” where people are shackled in the heat without adequate water or protection.
- Amnesty staff describe witnessing disciplinary actions at Miami’s Krome center, including a man with a broken hand who said he waited 37 days for care before an ICE official slammed a metal flap on his fingers.
- Documented conditions include flooding, overflowing toilets, 24-hour fluorescent lighting, and restricted access to food, water, and medicine.
- A U.S. District Judge ordered the South Florida facility closed in August over environmental harm, but a federal appeals court blocked that order in October.
- Florida’s governor’s office rejects the allegations as fabricated, while reporting has raised oversight concerns such as detainees not appearing in ICE’s online locator and the role of private contractor Akima at Krome.