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While I am not sure that there are any incinerators at the facility, I highly suggest that an oversight committee of people (bipartisan civilians, those who champion ethics and human rights, even UN representatives from other countries) be installed at the facility and given the legal right to transparently communicate to the American public what they witness and the right to seek legal action to close it if they deem necessary. When I first heard about CECOT several years ago as it was opened, I was still working as an RN at a women’s prison, I was appalled and could not stop crying at night…i kept telling everyone i knew that the world had to say NO to this kind of thing and that if it didn’t, for sure, it would signal more of these types of “detention centers” in other countries, including the U.S. And just look what we have done…. While i don’t have all the answers as to how to house very dangerous people in ways to keep the world safe from them…Can we be sure those brought to places like Cecot and Alligator Alcatraz are actually dangerous if there is no bipartisan oversight? And even if they are dangerous…they are still human…and we need to collectively dialogue about and discover together more humane ways to keep our world safe from dangerous people. We also need to build a world that does not create conditions in which people become this dangerous—namely poverty, oppression, and abuse for starts. So many questions…. A few more: What will happen to those in the facility if a hurricane comes inland? How will sanitation of the facility be accomplished so that it does not breed disease and death of those incarcerated and the plants and creatures of the Everglades? How long will people be detained there before being moved out? Will there be children there? Even when people behave in inhuman and monstrous ways….i firmly believe that if we answer that by behaving just as inhuman and monstrous, we are simply perpetuating the loop. It is a serious situation and we need to listen to all sides of it…all sides need to come together….there are valid points that each side has that need to be heard …..and then maybe we can together find better ways to deal with things like this. if we keep making enemies of each other we are not going to get anywhere any of us want to go.

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