[Pnews] Reports of Uprising at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

[Prisoner News]

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Reports of Uprising at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’
August 29, 2025
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By Chris Schiano, Unicorn Riot August 29, 2025August 29, 2025

Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport, Everglades, FL –
According to reporting
by Noticias 23/Univision
<https://www.univision.com/local/miami-wltv/migrantes-detenidos-denuncian-supuesto-motin-alcatraz-de-los-caimanes>,
an uprising took place on or around Thursday, August 28 at the notorious
immigrant detention center called ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ by some and the
‘Everglades Concentration Camp’ by others. The site has drawn widespread
condemnation due to severe human rights and environmental violations and is
in the process of closing.

Noticias 23/Univison reports
<https://www.univision.com/local/miami-wltv/migrantes-detenidos-denuncian-supuesto-motin-alcatraz-de-los-caimanes>
that three detainees contacted them by phone and that alarms could be heard
in the background of calls from the facility. At least four people detained
at the rapidly-constructed detention camp, ordered shut down by a federal
judge on Wednesday
<https://apnews.com/article/florida-immigration-ice-alligator-alcatraz-445e7cc7f6163d6a4749d452f2d57630>,
have been reportedly injured in the uprising. The number of guards injured
is currently unknown.

Guards reportedly used tear gas and indiscriminate beatings to regain
control of the facility when an unknown number of suffering captives began
to revolt, presumably to attempt to escape. Detainees who contacted the
Miami-Fort Lauderdale Spanish-language news outlet said that they could
hear fire alarms as well as the sound of helicopters circling the facility.

Spanish-language video report from Noticias 23/Univision features calls
from detainees describing organized violence by guards in the detention
camp.

The Florida Division of Emergency Management (FDEM), tasked with running
the facility, denies that any such events took place and did not respond to
requests for comment according to Noticias 23/Univision. However, details
reported in this incident are consistent with an earlier August 6 report by
NBC 6 South Florida
<https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/theyre-abusing-them-caller-reports-altercation-inside-alligator-alcatraz/3673591/>,
in which detainees calling the news station reported general chaos, mass
beatings by guards, and the likely death of an injured or sick person seen
laying on the floor *“dying”* with no medical care available. The FDEM
replied to NBC 6’s inquiry for their earlier story by insisting *“these
claims are false.” * Detainees at the camp went on hunger strike
<https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/alligator-alcatraz-hunger-strike-detainees-protest-conditions-rcna222554>
in July stretching into August but the Department of Homeland Security
repeatedly insisted this was not happening.

According to Noticias 23/Univision’s August 28 report, statements made by
detainees who reached their reporters by telephone included the following.
Quotes in Spanish reported by Noticias 23/Univision have been rush
translated into English and may contain minor errors:

*“They started yelling because a person had received news that a relative
had died, and then they began shouting for freedom. At that moment, a
prison team entered and started beating everyone. Right now everything is
chaotic, and there’s a helicopter above. They’ve beaten everyone here, a
lot of people have bled. Brother, tear gas. We are immigrants, we are not
criminals, we are not murderers.”*

*“There are helicopters overhead and a lot of people bleeding.”*

*“They are beating us, they are mistreating us.”*

(Through tears): *“We are being mistreated, we are being beaten. It’s the
emergency alarm, please help us.” *
Statements reportedly made by detainees to Noticias 23/Univision
<https://www.univision.com/local/miami-wltv/migrantes-detenidos-denuncian-supuesto-motin-alcatraz-de-los-caimanes>

Another August 28 report by Noticias Univision Orlando
<https://www.univision.com/local/tampa-wvea/detenidos-enfrentan-condiciones-precarias-pervio-al-posible-cierre-de-alligator-alcatraz>
cites warnings by ‘Ana’, the wife of a man being abused in the detention
camp, that her husband has the coronavirus and is packed tightly into a
cell crammed with many other detained people.

Solidarity South Florida, a network *“of anarchist organizers in South
Florida”* that runs a webpage tracking contractors tied to ‘Alligator
Alcatraz’ <https://linktr.ee/stopAA>, issued a statement on Mastodon
<https://kolektiva.social/@solidaritysfl/115110010708234660>:

*“Anarchists in South Florida stand in full solidarity with those fighting
for liberation inside the concentration camps. From Operation Al-Aqsa Flood
to the Everglades Concentration Camp, the Auschwitz Prisoner Rebellion to
Attica Prison Riot, liberating concentration camps by any means necessary
is the only course of action left to the disappeared.*

*As the courts begin to place roadblocks to this concentration camp’s
expansion and some operations, the cracks in the Empire are beginning to
widen. May they continue to grow as revolutionaries take bold action on the
inside and outside to end mass deportation, incarceration, borders, and
this Empire.”*
Solidarity South Florida

This developing story was first reported by Noticias 23/Univision
<https://www.univision.com/local/miami-wltv/migrantes-detenidos-denuncian-supuesto-motin-alcatraz-de-los-caimanes>
in Spanish and Jacob Crosse at wsws.org
<https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/08/29/uyvh-a29.html> first reported
it in English, citing the original Spanish reporting.

Title image via SovNat/Wikimedia Commons
<https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alligator_Alcatraz_on_2025-07-29.jpg#filelinks>
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Published August 29, 2025
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