Guards at Alligator Alcatraz are now wearing Grim Reaper patches: report - Lemmy.World

Florida officials hastily built the detention center last year, prompting a string of lawsuits Guards inside Florida’s notorious “Alligator Alcatraz” immigrant detention facility are reportedly wearing patches featuring the Grim Reaper and the words “You can’t hide.” A former guard at the facility, which sits on an old airstrip in a remote patch of the Everglades, reportedly made the patches and distributed them to other staff members. “What I saw was ‘Alligator Alcatraz,’ a skeleton dressed in black holding a hatchet and a crocodile underneath,” former detainee Lewis Ortigoza told the Miami Herald of the patch. “It looked like something demonic.” “I always felt haunted by it, but I never said anything because I was so afraid,” he added.