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- The Everglades detention center, nicknamed 'Alligator Alcatraz,' faces severe inhumane conditions, including extreme heat and detainees held in cages.
- Activist Thomas Kennedy notes conditions declined with staff turnover and repression of protests.
- Following a federal ruling granting detainees access to counsel, guards cut access, sparking violence.
- Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) calls the facility a 'monument to cruelty.'
- The center reflects Florida immigration policy under President Donald Trump, instilling fear.
