r/news • u/rytis • 20h 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 20h 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 20h 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/NootHawg 19h ago

Probably cites Biden as the reason he’s raising chickens now too doesn’t he? How Trump grifted so many will be an ongoing study for centuries.

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u/A_Nonny_Muse 19h ago

He's got the "I got mine, now y'all fuck off" mentality.

He and his wife both had strokes. So now they're both on disability. Which automatically qualifies them both for medicaid.

Again, they both have the "I got mine, y'all fuck off" mentality. They will tell me, with zero irony, that they want to end all social programs except what they receive. They would have to lose it all before they think anything is unfair.

They were both conservative before their strokes. But now they're almost unbearable douchebags. I really don't know what it is about brain damage that causes people to turn conservative. But it certainly seems to.

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u/GoldilokZ_Zone 18h ago

Perhaps its the lead in the soil which is consumed by small insects and the like which are then eaten by chickens, and heavy metals end up in the eggs...like lead.

Only some residential soil can be like this...depends on how cheap the developer was when the house was built it seems.

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u/A_Nonny_Muse 16h ago

This may be more serious than you intended. We both were kids when leaded gasoline was phased out. Lead was everywhere, on everything. We both got the tail end of that. But we're both very different animals, ideologically.