Tell Congress to Help Shut Down the Glades Detention Center

TAKE ACTION NOW: Contact your U.S. Representatives to take action to Shut Down Glades Detention Center

For many years, immigrants at the Glades County Detention Center have experienced racialized violence, sexual abuse, medical neglect, inhumane treatment, and threats to to their safety and lives.

At Glades, there is a systemic and consistent pattern of racism towards Black immigrants. Recently, the facility’s director suggested he would leave a noose in a Black immigrant’s cell, and racially-based complaints on behalf of at least 10 Black immigrants have been filed. Black immigrants also face disproportionate use of force, threats and intimidation, pepper spray, solitary confinement, extreme forms of physical violence, off-camera physical assault, and racialized verbal abuse. While these incidents are not new, they have continued at an alarming rate under this Administration.

The abuse does not stop there. In the last few months, people in the facility were hospitalized as a result of a carbon monoxide leak and the overuse of toxic chemicals. At least 35 civil rights complaints have been filed related to treatment at Glades since the onset of the pandemic.

Enough is enough. We need to shut down Glades now.

It's time for our elected representatives to take action. Send your message below to ask your member of Congress to help shut down Glades.

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As your constituent, I am deeply concerned about the abuses that have been consistently reported inside the Glades County Detention Center. I call on you to do everything in your power to help shut down the facility immediately.

This documented pattern of abuses includes but are not limited to: death threats against Black immigrants, including a threat against at least one Haitian immigrant with a noose; the rampant use of toxic chemicals spray; the unwarranted and punitive use of pepper spray and solitary confinement; medical neglect; and the disproportionate targeting of Black immigrants and women. Most recently, individuals and a staff member at the facility were hospitalized as a result of a carbon monoxide leak.

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People’s lives continue to be in danger every minute that this detention facility remains open. I urge you to take action to shut down Glades and end the pattern of abuses that we are seeing in Florida.

Sincerely,

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Tell Congress to Help Shut Down the Glades Detention Center

TAKE ACTION NOW: Contact your U.S. Representatives to take action to Shut Down Glades Detention Center

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