A Coast Guard plane carrying several dozen people in immigration custody landed in Alaska in early June.

Several of the men said that they didn’t have bathroom access on the plane — or even seats. They flew shackled in the cargo area of the plane.

They’d been transferred from the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, Washington, to the Anchorage Correctional Complex, a facility run by the state Department of Corrections.

“From that moment on, I personally felt dehumanized,” said one man who kept a journal from the experience.

Capital & Main is not identifying him or several other people in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement due to retaliation concerns.

Transfers of people in ICE custody between facilities are becoming more and more common under the Trump administ

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