by Julia Conley | Dec 4, 2025 | Alligator Alcatraz, Florida, immigration, Migrant Jails, News, Prisons, Torture, Trump Administration
Two immigration detention centers in Florida have gained notoriety for inhumane conditions since Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, in close alignment with President Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant agenda, has rapidly scaled up mass detention in the state, and a report released Thursday detailed how human rights violations at the two facilities amount to torture in some cases.
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by Amy Goodman | Nov 14, 2025 | Alien Enemies Act, CECOT, due process, El Salvador, Human Rights, Immigrants, Interview, Prisons, Sexual Abuse, Solitary Confinement, Torture, War Powers Act
252 Venezuelan immigrants in the United States were flown to El Salvador in the dead of night and indefinitely imprisoned at the Salvadoran mega-prison CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center. The detainees had no ability to communicate to the outside world before they were finally released to Venezuela in a prisoner exchange. The men were “subjected to beatings almost daily upon arrival…
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by Elizabeth Weill-Greenberg | Oct 17, 2025 | ceasefire, Gaza, Gaza Ceasefire, Health Care Workers, hostages, Israel, News, Palestine, prisoner exchanges, Torture
More than two dozen Palestinian healthcare workers held hostage in Israel’s torture camps were supposed to be released on Monday, October 13, according to Healthcare Workers Watch-Palestine (HWW), an organization that tracks Israel’s attacks on Palestine’s healthcare system. “While not all releases are confirmed yet, the list includes 24 nurses, 7 doctors, and 2 paramedics,” the group said in…
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