Detention by Neglect
Nationally, nearly a quarter of ICE facilities are over capacity/HRW.
Florida’s immigration detention centers are facing a human rights crisis.
A new report by Americans for Immigrant Justice, Human Rights Watch, and Sanctuary of the South documents overcrowding, unsanitary conditions, degrading treatment, and medical neglect at three facilities—failures that may have contributed to at least two deaths.
These are not isolated cases, but part of a broken system strained by surging detainee numbers.
Krome’s population has tripled this year; the Miami Federal Detention Center, previously unused for immigration detention, now holds hundreds.
Nationally, nearly a quarter of ICE facilities are over capacity.
The report calls for urgent reforms: alternatives to detention, improved conditions, and independent oversight.
“People in immigration detention are being treated as less than human,” one researcher concluded.
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