Federal Bureau of Prisons held transferred ICE detainees in Miami facility with failed air conditioning and water

On July 15, 2026, the wives of at least three men held at the Federal Bureau of Prisons' Federal Detention Center in downtown Miami gathered outside the facility and publicly alleged that their husbands were being held in inhumane conditions. The men had been transferred to the federal jail from the Krome Detention Center, which was evacuated because of nearby wildfires. Although U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement transferred the detainees, the Bureau of Prisons operates the Federal Detention Center and is responsible for conditions inside it.

The families described a lack of working air conditioning during the South Florida summer, unreliable access to clean drinking water — with detainees drinking from sinks — and denial of medications, including for a detainee with diabetes and acute pancreatitis. One spouse, Annett Uset-Dumont, said her husband, Daikel Dumont Rodriguez, had been placed in solitary confinement; a Bureau of Prisons spokesperson confirmed the existence of disciplinary segregation but declined to comment on any individual's confinement, citing privacy and security.

In response to the allegations, the Bureau of Prisons acknowledged that the facility experienced a water-pressure problem on July 1, for which it said additional bottled water was provided and which it said was resolved the next day, and that an air-conditioning chiller malfunctioned on July 6 but had since been repaired, with both chillers operating normally. The families said conditions had not meaningfully improved and that they would continue to speak out. The three men, each detained after serving prison sentences, had remained in custody because Cuba would not accept their deportation, and had declined officials' suggestions to self-deport to a third country.