Detainees who arrived at the Florida Everglades immigration detention center were Wannial Cutraz ” According to the handbook given to detainees, they are given color-coded uniforms and wrist straps, and are then separated based on their criminal history and whether they are considered a flight risk.
The handbook presents strict rules regarding hygiene and clothing, depicting the environment within a remote detention center, in contrast to the deplorable circumstances described shortly after it opened in July. The handbook was published as part of a lawsuit over whether detainees have adequate access to lawyers.
The court case is one of three cases filed by environmental and civil rights groups over the terms of the detention center, which was built by the state of Florida this summer and operated by private contractors and state agencies.
Federal judges in Miami Order in August The facility must close operations within two months and agree to the Environmental Group that it was not given a proper environmental review before the remote runway site was converted into an immigration detention centre. However, operations continued after the judge’s interim injunction. It’s been put on hold In early September, an appeals court panel was added.
President Donald Trump visited the facility in July and July It suggested that it could be a model For future lockups that his administration will push to expand the infrastructure needed to increase deportation.
Civil rights groups on Monday asked a federal judge at Fort Myers for an injunction to stop the facility from retaining detainees. They argued that federal law does not allow state agencies or private contractors to carry out immigration detention as it functions solely at the Department of Homeland Security, and that the facility was set up “outside the usual channel for immigration detention, regardless of the multiple restrictions and safeguards of federal law.”
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AP’s Lisa Dwyer reports on the Florida Detention Center’s color code system.
“As a result, the facility is plagued by a number of previously unthinkable issues,” they said in a motion to a temporary injunction. “My physical condition is vicious.”
However, a handbook filed last week by Florida in separate legal access lawsuits suggests detainees are being warned of security guards enforce strict rules regarding dress, hygiene and conduct.
Detainees must watch an orientation video upon arrival. They are only allowed to hold small personal religious items like prayer books, glasses, dentures, wedding rings and rosaries, and wear uniformed sandals. You will be given soap, shampoo, deodorant, toothpaste, toothbrush, sheets, blankets, mattress and towels. Among the items considered contraband are recording devices such as cameras and mobile phones, as well as identity documents such as passports and birth certificates, as immigrants and customs enforcement agencies may use the documents as evidence.
According to the handbook, uniform shirts for detainees can never be removed in residential units or recreational areas, and they cannot place their hands on the waistband of their pants, nor face discipline, regardless of weather conditions.
During regular head counts, detainees are not allowed to move or speak. If so, they can be punished by locking up in their housing units, along with everyone in their dorms. Breakfast starts at 5:30am and meals will be served in a dining room where meals are prohibited from being removed. Detainees isolated from the general population are provided in their cells.
Barber services are available and detainees are expected to bathe regularly and keep their hair clean. “Personal hygiene is essential,” the handbook said. but, Detainees reported in July The toilets are occasionally flushed, the floors are overflowing with feces waste, and detainees go for a few days without showering.
The facility has a law library where detainees can spend up to five hours a week there.
In another court application, private contractor officials who oversee how detainees access lawyers challenged civil rights groups’ arguments that detainees do not have sensitive access to lawyers and client communications to be protected. Nakamoto Group’s Mark Saunders said all detainee requests from the attorneys’ meeting were granted either directly or via video conferencing.
The handbook also notified detainees that the facility had zero resistance to sexual assault and abuse, and hired full-time investigators trained in sexual assault investigations. While saying that sexual assault is never the victim’s fault, the handbook also lists ways detainees can avoid it, such as not accepting gifts or favors from others and appearing to be confident.
“Many attackers chose victims who seemed not to fight back, or who they thought were emotionally weak,” the handbook said.
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