The detainees who arrive at the Florida Immigration Center, Evergels, known as the name “Crocodile Crocodile” The uniforms are given in colors and wrist ranges, then they are separated based on their criminal history and whether they are considered a flight risk, according to a booklet given to the detainees.
The booklet has been included in the court documents, which are part of a lawsuit on whether the detainees are obtaining an appropriate access to the lawyers. The booklet presents strict rules on cleanliness and clothing, and depicts an environment within the remote detention center that flashes starkly with the unfortunate conditions described shortly after its opening in July.
The court case is one of three lawsuits submitted by environmental and civil rights groups on the conditions in the detention center, which was built this summer by Florida and managed by private contractors and state agencies.
Federal judge in Miami It was ordered in August The facility must end within two months, in agreement with the environmental groups that the aircraft landing site has not been given an appropriate environmental review before it was converted to the Immigration Display Center. But the operations continued after the preliminary judge order It was suspended In early September by the Court of Appeal.
President Donald Trump toured the facility in July and He suggested that it could be a model For future insurance operations throughout the country, with its administration pushing the infrastructure necessary to increase the deportation.
On Monday, civil rights groups requested a federal judge at Fort Meers for a judicial order that prevents the facility from detention of detainees. They argued that federal law does not allow government agencies or private sector contractors to implement immigration detention because this is a job for the Ministry of Internal Security alone, and that the facility was created “outside the regular channels of detention of migration, without looking at multiple limits and guarantees in federal law.”
“As a result, the facility suffers from a set of problems that cannot be conceived previously: people have been detained for weeks without removal charges. The detainees who enter the facility disappear from the system of tracking the ordinary detainee.” “Physical conditions are terrible.”
But the booklet submitted by the state of Florida last week in the separate legal lawsuit indicates that the detainees have warned that the guards will impose strict rules on dress, hygiene and behavior.
The detainees must watch a guidance video upon arrival. They are only allowed to keep prayer books, glasses, tooth sets, wedding rings and small personal religious things such as the rosary, and wearing sandals with uniforms. They are given soap, shampoo, sweat remover, toothpaste, toothbrush, as well as sheets, blankets, arranged and towel, according to the booklet.
Uniform detainees can never be removed in residential units or entertainment areas, and they cannot put their hands in their pants belt regardless of weather conditions, or they face discipline, according to the booklet.
During the normal head census, the detainees are not allowed to move or speak. If they do so, they can be punished, along with everyone in their residence, while being imprisoned in their housing unit. Breakfast meals start at 5:30 am in the meals in a dining hall where food is banned from removing it. The detainees who are separated from the general population are presented in their cells.
Rubber services are available, and detainees are expected to bathe regularly and keep their hair clean. “Personal hygiene is essential,” said the booklet. but, I mentioned the detainees in July Sometimes toilets do not flow, floors are flooded with stool waste, and detainees go days without showering.
The facility has a legal library, and detainees can spend up to five hours a week there.
In a separate court file, an official with a private contractor who oversees how to reach the detainees of lawyers in civil rights collections arguments that the detainees do not get a secret communications access between the family lawyer who must be protected. Mark Sonders of the Nakamoto Group said that there are four rooms for private lawyers’ meetings, and the facility’s guards do not read legal documents for detainees. He said that every request for a lawyer meeting, either personal or through a video conference, was granted.
The booklet also informs the detainees that the attachment has no tolerance with sexual assault or abuse, and he has rented a full -time investigator trained in sexual assault. While saying sexual assault is never a victim’s mistake, the booklet also lists methods that the detainees can avoid, such as not accepting gifts or preferences from others and they appear confident.
The booklet said: “Many attackers choose victims who seem to be will not resist or those who think he is emotionally weak.”
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