Prisoners at Florida's newly opened immigrant detention center in the Everglades are suffering in squalid conditions and are cut off from legal access, according to attorneys, detainees, family members, and lawmakers.
While Florida state officials insist that the hastily constructed tent prison, which they've dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz," is orderly and clean, multiple reports and first-hand accounts say the opposite.
Regina de Moraes, a Miami immigration attorney, says one of her clients was transferred from the tent camp to the Krome Detention Center, another nearby Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility, on Monday for a bond hearing.
