Former ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ Corrections Officer Describes ‘Inhumane’ Conditions: Like ‘An Oversized Kennel’

Sarah Rumpf Aug 6th, 2025, 7:23 pm

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A woman who worked at the ICE detention facility in the Everglades known as “Alligator Alcatraz” says that the conditions there are miserable and “inhumane,” comparing the areas where detainees are kept to “an oversized kennel.”

Alligator Alcatraz has been extremely controversial after multiple reports of abuses of detainees , hundreds of millions of dollars in lucrative contracts going to GOP donors and other allies of Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis , lack of audits and other Florida law-mandated transparency, environmental harm to a national park’s fragile ecosystem, and impact on local Miccosukee and Se

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