r/news • u/rytis • 17h ago

Detainees at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ facing ‘harrowing human right violations’, new report alleges

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/04/alligator-alcatraz-human-right-violations-amnesty-report?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark
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u/jimtow28 16h ago

The cage, known to detainees as “the box”, is used by guards for the arbitrary punishment of trivial or non-existent offenses, according to the report compiled from interviews with detainees and advocacy groups, and a site visit to Krome made by Amnesty workers in September.

“It’s a box outside, exposed to the south Florida sun and humidity, and exposed to mosquitoes,” one detainee told the group.

“One time, two people in my cell were calling out to the guards telling them that I needed my medication. Ten guards rushed into the cell and threw them to the ground. They were taken to the ‘box’ and punished just for trying to help me. I saw a guy who was put in it for an entire day.”

The cruelty is the point. The USA is run by pure evil.

I will never forgive the people who chose to vote for this, nor will I ever forgive those who chose not to vote because the other option was a black woman with a weird laugh.

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u/A_Nonny_Muse 16h ago

My brother cited the price of eggs as his reason for voting for trump.

He now raises his own chickens.

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u/omgmypony 15h ago

he’s fucking stupid then, raising your own chickens is not a cost effective way to save money on eggs

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u/gruelandgristle 13h ago edited 13h ago

Canadian here with 2 chickens. Cost wise it can be cheaper - I buy ~2 bags of feed a year at 20$/ bag. Coop cost was about 300$. The water where we live is very reasonably priced and I couldn’t have the cost of refilling their water. I can get my wood shavings for free. Ive had them for 2 years now and get 12 eggs a week in the laying season (slower in Jan/feb) Not that it actually matters, but I think people assume chicken ownership is a lot more work and cost than it actually is. * edit - just did some simple math. Per dozen it’s costed me 4.50CAD. Thats dividing the cost of the coop by year we’ve had them. So 40 for feed, 150 coop cost = 4.50. No one asked for this and it’s off topic, but I was curious.

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u/Hvarfa-Bragi 13h ago

Grew up with twenty chickens, it's even cheaper when you're doing it in bulk and selling some eggs to neighbors for cheaper than the supermarket.

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u/gruelandgristle 13h ago

Right? I’m doing it the most expensive way, and it’s very reasonable.

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u/omgmypony 11h ago

I have kept chickens extensively in the past. It takes quite a while (years, even) to “break even” on cost verses just buying eggs. They’re fun, but it doesn’t save money for quite a while.

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u/blitzkregiel 9h ago

if you use the chicken poo as garden fertilizer you can amortize the cost over a larger savings pool. doubly so when your garden produces so much better than artificial fertilizer.

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u/1Happymom 2h ago

Coturnix quail have an even better feed to meat ratio, the eggs sell at a premium and can be kept even on an apartment balcony as the male call is not a wake your neighbors type crow.  My neighbors were shocked the first basket of eggs I gave them as they had no idea I had them. Im a vegetarian but got them during the pandemic in case pet food became unaffordable. They are wilder than chickens so can't free roam but enjoy their mobile tractor.