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Human Rights Watch Exposes Abuse at Krome Immigration Jail in Florida

HeadlineJul 21, 2025
Image Credit: Human Rights Watch

People held in a Miami immigration jail describe being shackled with their hands tied behind their backs and being forced to kneel to eat food from styrofoam plates on the floor “like dogs.” That’s according to testimonies in a new Human Rights Watch report published today detailing abusive conditions at the Krome jail and two other detention facilities in Florida operated by ICE. The report also says officers have denied detainees critical medication and held some of them incommunicado in solitary confinement as an apparent punishment for seeking mental healthcare. Detained immigrants were also routinely denied access to legal counsel.

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