Shock and disgust cause the testimonies included In his report on detention conditions to three detention facilities her Servicef Migration and customs enforcement ofN (Ice) that the government has turned into a key tool for enforcing its power.
Were forced to eat kneeling on the floor
According to the exhibition and the Guardian also reports, in the detention center in downtown Miami, prisoners were stacked by dozens in a cell, they were not provided with food until 7pm and when they arrived they did not allow them to eat normally, but held their hands behind them.
Prisoners argued that this degrading treatment was intended to make them feel “like animals or dogs”, but the complaints do not stop there.
Men and women stacked on bus in prison parking lots
According to other recordings, in addition to HRW, the American organizations for Immigrant Justice and Sanctuary of the South, at the Krome North Center in West Miami, also contributed Female prisoners were forced to use the toilets in front of the eyes of the men held there, while refusing to access care that responded to their gender, shower or sufficient food.
The prison was so full, some detainees reported, who remained for more than 24 hours on a bus in the parking lot. Men and women were locked in the bus and handcuffed them only when they needed to use the unique toilet inside the vehicle, which was quickly closed, with what it implies for the hygiene of the space.
When they were finally transported inside the facilities, many spent up to 12 days cramped into a cold reception room baptized La Hierela – the ice cream – no bed or warm clothes, where they were necessarily sleeping on the cold concrete floor.
Denial of care, repression and wood
Correspondingly at the Broward detention center, prisoners reported that they were systematically denied appropriate medical or psychological care.
Many reported that they had taken care of care and treatment for injuries and chronic diseases, while staff had marginally hostile reactions to their demands. In April at the Miami Center prison, staff closed the monitoring camera and a “riot control group” abused brutal prisoners who complained about the lack of medical care for one of the prisoners who had constant haemoptysis. A prisoner suffered a fracture on the finger.
Arrests on Trump are sobs
All three facilities were severely overcrowded, the former prisoners said. In mid -June, the number of immigrants arrested nationally was on average of 56,400 a day, of which 72% have no criminal history. The daily average over the whole of 2024 was 37,500, HRW said.
The groups say that recorded abuses reflect inhumane conditions within the federal immigration facilities, which have worsened significantly after Trump’s swearing -in in January and the subsequent impulse of increasing bookings and deportations.
Testimonies are reminiscent of records from corresponding centers of immigrants and refugees around the world, while the American public awakens memories of the famous secret prisons during the “war against terrorism”, such as in Abu Graib and elsewhere.
