via US news | The Guardian — Authorities must also provide detainees access to free and private legal phone calls and allow lawyers to visit unannounced A federal judge ruled on Friday that officials at Florida’s state-run immigration jail, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz”, must give attorneys better access to their detained clients. The order by federal judge Sheri Polster Chappell, from the middle district of Florida, said facility officials must provide access to confidential, private, free and unmonitored outgoing legal tele

via BorderReport — MIAMI (AP) — A 19-year-old Mexican migrant died at a county jail in Florida that has been holding immigrant detainees, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. According to ICE, Royer Perez-Jimenez “died of presumed suicide,” although an official cause of death remains under investigation. The death of Perez-Jimenez on Monday is the 46th reported [...]