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Detainees at the notorious Florida immigration jail known as “Alligator Alcatraz” were shackled inside a 2ft-high metal cage and left outside without water for up to a day at a time, a shocking report published on Thursday by Amnesty International alleges.

The human rights group said people held at the state-run Everglades facility, and at Miami’s Krome immigration processing center operated by a private company on behalf of the Trump administration, continued to be exposed to “cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment” rising in some cases to torture.

For instance the cage, known to detainees as “the box”, is used by guards for the arbitrary punishment of trivial or nonexistent offenses, according to the report, which was compiled from interviews with detainees and advocac

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