When Luis Manuel Rivas Velásquez collapsed in his unit at Florida’s controversial “Alligator Alcatraz” immigrant detention center and was taken to the hospital on Aug. 5, detainees pounded on the metal bars of their cages and shouted for help. One detainee who witnessed what happened shared details of the incident in a phone call with his fiancée, along with allegations of abuse at the facility.
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