Horror stories from Florida’s Alligator Alcatraz have begun trickling out.

A detainee says he witnessed guards groping and assaulting his tent-mates, according to a recorded phone call obtained by Status Coup. He said he also fears it is only a matter of time before detainees begin dying in custody there.

“This has to come out one way or another because they’re going to kill us here, little by little,” the man, a Cuban national, says in the recording. “No one pays attention to us. I’ve been here for 30 days, seeing injustice and mistreatment—it doesn’t stop. They abuse us in every way, with the food, in the bathroom, everything, everything.”

A pet project of Gov. Ron DeSantis, the immigrant detention facility opened on July 1 in the Florida Everglades. The first deportation flights fro

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