# DHS watchdog: Immigrants spent more than an hour in phone-booth-sized outdoor cages at ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

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- NBC News, 2026-09-14 13:39 UTC
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- Original: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/dhs-watchdog-immigrants-held-outdoor-cages-size-phone-booths-alligator-rcna593917

> A new DHS watchdog report says some immigrants held at Florida’s now-closed “Alligator Alcatraz” spent individual confinement periods exceeding an hour in outdoor cages only marginally larger than phone booths.

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