> Immigrant women say they were held “like animals” in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention and subjected to conditions so extreme they feared for their lives.
> Chained for hours on a prison bus without access to food, water or a toilet. Told by guards to urinate on the floor. Held “like sardines in a jar,” as many as 27 women in a small holding cell. Sleeping on a concrete floor. Getting one three-minute shower over three or four days in custody.
> “We smelled worse than animals,” one detainee said. “More girls were coming every day. We were screaming, begging them, ‘You can’t let them come.’ They didn’t have space.”
> Four women were held in February at the Krome North Processing Center in Miami – a detention center reserved for men. ICE took the women into custody on alleged immigration violations, but none has a criminal background, according to a review of law enforcement records. They shared their experiences with USA TODAY on condition of anonymity, fearing retaliation by the government because they are still detained.
> **The allegations come after two men at Krome died in custody on Jan. 23 and Feb. 20.**
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> Immigrant women say they were held “like animals” in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention and subjected to conditions so extreme they feared for their lives.
> Chained for hours on a prison bus without access to food, water or a toilet. Told by guards to urinate on the floor. Held “like sardines in a jar,” as many as 27 women in a small holding cell. Sleeping on a concrete floor. Getting one three-minute shower over three or four days in custody.
> “We smelled worse than animals,” one detainee said. “More girls were coming every day. We were screaming, begging them, ‘You can’t let them come.’ They didn’t have space.”
> Four women were held in February at the Krome North Processing Center in Miami – a detention center reserved for men. ICE took the women into custody on alleged immigration violations, but none has a criminal background, according to a review of law enforcement records. They shared their experiences with USA TODAY on condition of anonymity, fearing retaliation by the government because they are still detained.
> **The allegations come after two men at Krome died in custody on Jan. 23 and Feb. 20.**