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Lawyer says guards beat and pepper-sprayed detainees at Florida’s ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

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ORLANDO, Fla. — Guards severely beat and pepper-sprayed detainees 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, … Read more

A federal jury awards $667K to Muslim men who were pepper-sprayed by prison guards while praying

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ST. LOUIS, Mo. — A federal jury on Monday awarded $667,000 in damages to a group of Muslim men incarcerated in Missouri who were pepper-sprayed by state correctional officers while praying. The lawsuit in eastern Missouri’s U.S. District Court alleged that the men had been allowed to pray together many times in their prison housing … Read more