Ochopee, United States, Aug 20, 2025 (AFP) - Inside Trump's 'Alligator Alcatraz': detainees allege abuse in a legal black hole

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2025-08-20

At US President Donald Trump's new migrant detention center in the Florida Everglades, time has no discernible meaning. Prisoners are barely able to see sunlight in the windowless space, living under fluorescent lamps that are always on, with no clocks or anything else by which they might mark the days. Several detainees, their family members and lawyers have denounced appalling conditions at the facility, nicknamed "Alligator Alcatraz" by an adm......

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