Detainees report alleged uprising at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’: ‘A lot of people have bled’

Reports of incident were denied by Florida and Ice officials as detainees say they were beaten and teargas was fired

Guards at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration jail deployed teargas and engaged in a mass beating of detainees to quell a mini-uprising, it was reported on Friday.

The allegations, made by at least three detainees in phone calls to Miami’s Spanish language news channel Noticias 23, come as authorities race to empty the camp in compliance with a judge’s order to close the remote tented camp in the Everglades wetlands.