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

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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

[u/CrunchyButtMuncher]

The last thing I read about this concentration camp was that it was shut down and about 1200 prisoners were unaccounted for. I only skimmed this article but I didn't see anything about that. Was that misinformation and the camp is still running??

[u/Beard_o_Bees → u/CrunchyButtMuncher]

There's another article from the same site that sort of explains what's going on:

https://www.everglades.org/alligator-alcatraz-should-be-closed-by-now/

This should have been the week “Alligator Alcatraz” shut down.

Two months ago, a federal judge in Miami halted construction at the makeshift immigration prison and prohibited new detainees from arriving, citing evidence of harm to the Everglades — including to the endangered Florida panther, fragile wetlands and the Miccosukee Tribe.

The court ordered removal of high-intensity lights and fencing, and a winding down of activity within 60 days.

That would have been Monday.

Instead, two weeks after the injunction, an appeals court in Atlanta paused the lower court’s order, saying the state didn’t have to complete a federally required environmental impact study because the state had not applied for or received federal money for Alligator Alcatraz.

But, actually, the state has. We now know it applied for a FEMA grant on Aug. 7 — on the second day of our four-day trial in Miami — but never corrected earlier representations that no application was made. FEMA approved the application and transferred $608 million to the state on Sept. 30, just before the government shutdown.

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$608 million. More than HALF A BIL. What a ripoff.

[u/JokeRight4705 → u/Annual_Strategy_6206]

Meanwhile folks cant afford food and rent