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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Gisela Salomon and Kate Payne

Detainees describe worms in food, sewage near beds inside 'Alligator Alcatraz'

Immigration Florida - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Worms in the food. Toilets that don't flush, flooding floors with fecal waste. Days without a shower or prescription medicine. Mosquitoes and insects everywhere. Lights on all night. Air conditioners that suddenly shut off in the tropical heat. Detainees forced to use recorded phone lines to speak with their lawyers and loved ones.

Only days after President Donald Trump toured a new immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades that officials have dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” these are some of the conditions described by people held inside.

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