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The Current1h
ICE finds violations at Folkston detention center but continues to contract with The GEO Group
ICE awarded The GEO Group a $47 million contract to expand Folkston immigrant detention center, despite reports of violations ...
Mitú on MSN2h
Mosquitoes, Worms, Sweat, Starvation: What Migrants Say Life Is Like Inside Alligator Alcatraz
Migrants held at Alligator Alcatraz say they’re starving, sweating, and sleeping in cages, with no lawyers in sight.
Latin Times3h
Only 1 in 3 Detainees in 'Alligator Alcatraz' Have Criminal Record Despite Trump's Claims That It Holds 'The Most Menacing Migrants'
Records reviewed by the Miami Herald/Tampa Bay Times show that just one in every three detainees at the detention center ...
Mom and her four American-born children detained after visiting Canadian border: ‘What authoritarianism looks like’
Jackie Merlos, her 9-year-old triplets and 7-year-old son held by border patrol for more than two weeks, family says ...
WFSU News4h
Florida lawmakers have diverse views after visiting Alligator Alcatraz
Democrats report unsanitary conditions at the immigrant detention center in the Everglades, while Republicans say the ...
ICE detains six-year-old leukemia patient and his family — even though they’ve followed every immigration rule, lawyer says
Family launches first lawsuit involving arrests of children during controversial ICE operations inside courthouses ...
WGCU Public Media5h
Dem lawmaker: 'A clean cage is still a cage'; GOP legislator: 'The bed was actually probably more comfortable than my bed at home'
State and federal lawmakers got a glimpse Saturday inside the controversial and hastily built detention center in the middle ...
Washington Monthly7hOpinion
America Is Now a Police State
The Medicaid cuts are bad, but the $75B ICE expansion is worse—fueling mass deportations and turning America into a police ...
Trump said Alligator Alcatraz was built for the ‘most vicious people on the planet’ — but hundreds of detainees have no criminal record
Hundreds of detainees held at Alligator Alcatraz, the immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades, do not have ...
Immigrants in overcapacity ICE detention say they're hungry, raise food quality concerns
As the Trump administration ramps up immigration arrests, recent detainees and advocacy groups are raising concerns about ...
Davis Vanguard9h
The Difficult Journey Which Led to My Enlightenment and Healing Inside a San Francisco County Jail
The writer was transferred from Santa Rita Jail in Alameda County to San Bruno Jail in San Francisco after being targeted for his journalism exposing the jail's conditions and deaths, and was placed ...