Ben Kissel
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So it's in the middle of the swamp, which makes it not worth it for anyone who can get any other job.
So some of the guards also, they just fucking live there in a shared trailer with no hot water.
So they're essentially prisoners as well.
I'm sure it makes them super nice.
You're sharing the bathroom.
Yeah, man.
And the fucked up part is there's a lot less jobs nowadays in South Florida as well, so there's nowhere for people to turn to fucking support their families now.
It does, and that's the problem.
So as far as the abuse goes, the box isn't the only thing these American SS officers use as punishment.
They have been reports of guards beating and pepper spraying the men and held in the cages.
The few people who've come forward to talk about these incidents say how most of the beatings from the guards come at night as a form of retaliation for complaining about mistreatment, which includes but not limited to the showers being fucking filled with bugs, low amounts of food and other inhumane conditions.
And
Another report I hated had a detainee complaining about expired food and then was stripped naked, sprayed with a hose and beaten.
This is what's going on down there.
And then if you talk about it, it just escalates.
Yes.
Or they fucking...
Deport your ass.
It's crazy.
Well, a lot of people are going back to fucking places like Honduras where they're running from gangs that are trying to kill them.