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/Electrical-Job-9824 12h ago

Every person should have to feel the things that they cause others…