{"id":341465,"date":"2026-07-15T23:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T23:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/341465\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T23:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T23:12:14","slug":"families-say-detainees-facing-reprisals-for-speaking-up-about-conditions-at-miami-detention-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/341465\/","title":{"rendered":"Families say detainees facing reprisals for speaking up about conditions at Miami detention facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 The families of people detained at the downtown Miami Federal Detention Center are living in fear for their loved ones. They say they\u2019re suffering the consequences for recently speaking up about the poor conditions inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Wednesday, immigrants-rights groups protested outside the federal jail protesting on behalf of those detained inside and their families.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/07\/08\/families-raise-concerns-about-conditions-inside-downtown-miami-federal-detention-facility\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/07\/08\/families-raise-concerns-about-conditions-inside-downtown-miami-federal-detention-facility\/\">first reported<\/a> on issues at the facility, including an air conditioning outage in the middle of the scorching South Florida summer, a week prior. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A group of wives of detainees were among the protesters. Their husbands are part of a larger population of immigrants who were once held in the now shut-down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/topic\/Alligator_Alcatraz\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/topic\/Alligator_Alcatraz\/\">\u201cAlligator Alcatraz\u201d<\/a> detention facility in the Everglades.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cChanging the building did not change the suffering,\u201d activist Arianne Betancourt said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThey have to drink out of the sink,\u201d another woman said. \u201cThere\u2019s cockroaches.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Federal Bureau of Prisons confirmed to Local 10 News the building had an air conditioning problem, but it claims it was fixed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Annett Uset Dumont said since speaking to us last week, she claims her husband was placed in something called \u201cthe hole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThis guy you see on my shirt, his name Daikel Dumont Rodriguez and he\u2019s currently in the FDC up in solitary confinement because I decided to talk to the news,\u201d she said. \u201cThe hole is in the 12th floor and is in isolation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">An FBOP spokesperson confirmed \u201cthe hole\u201d is slang for disciplinary segregation, but declined to elaborate saying that \u201cfor privacy, safety, and security reasons, we do not comment on the conditions of confinement for any incarcerated individual.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Dumont\u2019s husband never called Local 10 News directly, but others did.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officials with the FBOP said detainees are allowed to call members of the news media.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI \u2014 The families of people detained at the downtown Miami Federal Detention Center are living in fear&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":341466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-341465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/341466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}