Detainees at a Florida immigration facility, dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," were allegedly punished for seeking legal advice and forced to scrawl lawyers’ phone numbers on walls and beds using soap due to a lack of writing materials, two former detainees testified this week.
The men, who have since deported to Colombia and to Haiti, gave video testimony in a federal court in Fort Myers, Florida. They claimed that monitored calls to individuals outside the detention centre were routinely disconnected whenever they attempted to discuss legal advice or secure representation.
