Judge’s Order for “Alligator Alcatraz” May Shape Legal Access at Other ICE Jails
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When Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) started sending people to a new tent-based jail nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz” deep in the Florida Everglades last July, it indicated a shift toward using quickly opened soft-sided structures and converted warehouses to hold thousands of people in chain-link fence cages with no access to a lawyer. “It was kind of a black box,” Paul Chavez…