Excessive Force and Retaliatory Use of Solitary Confinement Against Two Men Who Participated in Previous Civil Rights Complaint

Freedom for Immigrants and Immigrant Action Alliance submitted this complaint regarding the excessive use of force and retaliatory solitary confinement at Glades County Detention Center against two Jamaican men who reported abuse in a prior civil rights complaint filed February 22. Both men were harmed in the act of being taken to solitary confinement; both experienced severe use of force, with one man reporting he had been “badly beaten, maced and locked in confinement,” and the other reporting his head had been dragged on the ground on the way to solitary. Read the full complaint here.