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MIAMI (AP) 鈥� Worms in the food. Toilets that don’t flush, flooding floors with fecal waste. Days without a shower or prescription medicine. Mosquitoes and insects everywhere. Lights on all night. Air conditioners that suddenly shut off in the tropical heat. Detainees forced to use recorded phone lines to speak with their lawyers and loved ones.

Only days after President Donald Trump toured a new immigration detention center in the Florida Everglades that officials have dubbed 鈥淎lligator Alcatraz,鈥� these are some of the conditions described by people held inside.

Attorneys, advocates, detainees and families are speaking out about the makeshift migrant detention center Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration raced to build on an isolated airstrip surrounded by swampland. The center began accepting detainees on July 2.

鈥淭hese are human beings who have inherent rights, and they have a right to dignity,” said immigration attorney Josephine Arroyo. “And they鈥檙e violating a lot of their rights by putting them there.鈥�

Government officials have adamantly disputed the conditions described by detainees, their attorneys and family members, but have provided few details, and have denied access to the media. A televised tour for Trump and DeSantis showed rows of chain-link cages, each containing dozens of bunkbeds, under large white tents.

鈥淭he reporting on the conditions in the facility is completely false. The facility meets all required standards and is in good working order,鈥� said Stephanie Hartman, a spokesperson for the Florida Division of Emergency Management, which built the center.

A group of Democratic lawmakers sued the DeSantis administration for access. The administration is allowing a site visit by state legislators and members of Congress on Saturday, July 12.

Descriptions of attorneys and families differ from the government鈥檚 鈥渕odel鈥�

Families and attorneys who spoke with The Associated Press relayed detainees’ accounts of a place they say is unsanitary and lacks adequate medical care, pushing some into a state of extreme distress.

Such conditions make other immigration detention centers where advocates and staff have warned of unsanitary confinements, medical neglect and a lack of food and water seem 鈥渁dvanced,鈥� said immigration attorney Atara Eig.

Trump and his allies have praised this detention center’s harshness and remoteness as befitting the 鈥渨orst of the worst” and as a national model for the deterrence needed to persuade immigrants to 鈥渟elf-deport鈥� from the United States.

But among those locked inside the chain-link enclosures are people with no criminal records, and at least one teenage boy, attorneys told the AP.

Concerns about medical care, lack of medicines

Immigration attorney Katie Blankenship described a concerning lack of medical care at the facility, relaying an account from a 35-year-old Cuban client who told his wife that detainees go days without a shower. The toilets are in the same space as the bunkbeds and can’t handle their needs, she said.

The wife, a 28-year-old green card holder and the mother of the couple鈥檚 2-year-old daughter, who is a U.S. citizen, relayed his complaints to the AP. Fearing government retaliation against her and her detained husband, she asked not to be identified.

鈥淭hey have no way to bathe, no way to wash their mouths, the toilet overflows and the floor is flooded with pee and poop,鈥� the woman told the AP. 鈥淭hey eat once a day and have two minutes to eat. The meals have worms,鈥� she added.

The woman said the detainees 鈥渁ll went on a hunger strike鈥� on Thursday night to protest the conditions.

鈥淭here are days when I don鈥檛 know anything about him until the evening,鈥� she said, describing waiting for his calls, interrupted every three minutes by an announcement that the conversation is being recorded.

No meetings with attorneys

The detainees’ attorneys say their due process rights are among numerous constitutional protections being denied.

Blankenship is among the lawyers who have been refused access. After traveling to the remote facility and waiting for hours to speak with her clients, including a 15-year-old Mexican boy with no criminal charges, she was turned away by a security guard who told her to wait for a phone call in 48 hours that would notify her when she could return.

鈥淚 said, well, what鈥檚 the phone number that I can follow up with that? There is none,鈥� Blankenship recalled. 鈥淵ou have due process obligations, and this is a violation of it.鈥�

Arroyo鈥檚 client, a 36-year-old Mexican man who came to the U.S. as a child, has been detained at the center since July 5 after being picked up for driving with a suspended license in Florida’s Orange County. He鈥檚 a beneficiary of the DACA program, created to protect young adults who were brought to the U.S. as children from deportation and to provide them with work authorization.

Blankenship’s Cuban client paid a bond and was told he’d be freed on a criminal charge in Miami, only to be detained and transferred to the Everglades.

Eig has been seeking the release of a client in his 50s with no criminal record and a stay of removal, meaning the government can’t legally deport him while he appeals. But she hasn’t been able to get a bond hearing. She’s heard that an immigration court inside the Krome Detention Center in Miami 鈥渕ay be hearing cases鈥� from the Everglades facility, but as of Friday, they were still waiting.

鈥淛urisdiction remains an issue,鈥� Eig said, adding 鈥渢he issue of who鈥檚 in charge over there is very concerning.鈥�

___ Payne, who reported from Tallahassee, Fla., is a corps member for The Associated Press/Report for America Statehouse News Initiative. is a nonprofit national service program that places journalists in local newsrooms to report on undercovered issues.