Sep 16, 2026 · 30 min · 9 segments
Welcome back to This Week on ICE. Gute reise, Matt! — This Week on ICE co-host Matt Kendrick is headed to Vienna, Austria, this month to begin not one but two (2!) Master’s programs where we will…
And it goes through in agonizing detail the lack of humane standards and mistreatment that was endemic to this facility.
Those of you who don't know, it was essentially an open-air jail out in the Everglades in Florida, an incredibly inhospitable and uncomfortable place that has since been shut down.
So this report was released on September 11th by the Office of Inspector General.
It's a bit of like a whistleblower or audit office within the Department of Homeland Security.
And they conducted an unannounced or so-called unannounced visit in January of this year, but only submitted the report on September 11th.
And this report is very egregious, but also unsurprising of the conditions inside Alligator Alcatraz.
so it's a multi-page document describing unprecedented conditions that fail to meet federal standards, like containing detainees in cages that are about the size of phone booths used to either A, to place people inside to de-escalate if they are in a mental health situation, which I don't think helps if it's the size of a phone
Or basically to separate people or put in a separate location for any other number of reasons.
The OIG audit also found that at least one documented case, a migrant was put in these small cages as a form of punishment.
And putting people in small cages as a form of punishment is a form of torture.
And... not a situation in which a detainee with an immigration case should deservedly be put into
And it goes through in agonizing detail the lack of humane standards and mistreatment that was endemic to this facility.
Those of you who don't know, it was essentially an open-air jail out in the Everglades in Florida, an incredibly inhospitable and uncomfortable place that has since been shut down.
So this report was released on September 11th by the Office of Inspector General.
It's a bit of like a whistleblower or audit office within the Department of Homeland Security.
And they conducted an unannounced or so-called unannounced visit in January of this year, but only submitted the report on September 11th.
And this report is very egregious, but also unsurprising of the conditions inside Alligator Alcatraz.
so it's a multi-page document describing unprecedented conditions that fail to meet federal standards, like containing detainees in cages that are about the size of phone booths used to either A, to place people inside to de-escalate if they are in a mental health situation, which I don't think helps if it's the size of a phone
Or basically to separate people or put in a separate location for any other number of reasons.
The OIG audit also found that at least one documented case, a migrant was put in these small cages as a form of punishment.
And putting people in small cages as a form of punishment is a form of torture.
And... not a situation in which a detainee with an immigration case should deservedly be put into
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