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Richard Luscombe in Miami

Female migrant in Florida subjected to ‘horrific’ treatment, complaint alleges

Stucco building with US flag out front
The Baker county detention facility in Florida. Photograph: Google Maps

A female migrant in mental distress was kept in solitary confinement for a month at a Florida detention center, then mocked and leered at by male guards after they strapped her almost naked to a restraint chair, a federal civil rights complaint alleges.

The reported sexual and mental abuse of the detainee, identified solely as Ana, took place at the Baker county detention facility, a rural camp 30 miles west of Jacksonville with a long history of allegations of mistreatment, harassment, retaliation and cruelty to detainees.

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