Source: SFGate
“Guards severely beat and pepper-sprayed [abductees] at a state-run immigration detention center known as ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ in the Florida Everglades this month, according to a lawyer for two detainees. The guards targeted Katherine Blankenship’s clients and other detainees at the facility after they complained about not having phone access on April 2, Blankenship said in a court declaration. The phones, which weren’t functioning, are the primary way for detainees to communicate with family and their attorneys while in the detention center. The guards began taunting the detainees, who were in a cell, then became ‘more aggressive and were yelling and threatening to enter the cage,’ Blankenship wrote. When one detainee approached a guard, he was punched in the face. The guards then started beating other detainees in the cell. One of Blankenship’s clients was punched in the right eye, thrown to the floor and beaten by several guards.” (04/15/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/lawyer-says-guards-beat-and-pepper-sprayed-22208021.php