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The calls came in from all over the world\u2014France, Illinois, and nearby Miami\u2014as people with family and friends at one of the country\u2019s most infamous immigration detention centers dialed the one number they trusted to get help: 911.<\/p>\n

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Again and again, confused and desperate family members, unsure how to reach Alligator Alcatraz, called and were connected to the Collier County Sheriff\u2019s Office for help with their loved ones held in tents and cages in the Florida Everglades.<\/p>\n

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\u201cA security guard called me today to tell me that the father of my children had a cardiac arrest and can not feel his arm at all,\u201d a Miami-Dade woman seeking care for a 41-year-old detainee told a dispatcher.<\/p>\n

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The Miami Herald reviewed more than 130 incident reports and 911 calls over 328 days, all routed to the Collier County Sheriff\u2019s Office starting last summer, when the site was under construction. The calls, obtained through a public record request, ran through mid-May of this year, when state and federal officials acknowledged that discussions about closing the complex were underway.<\/p>\n

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The recorded conversations offer a glimpse into Alligator Alcatraz\u2019s daily operations and the confusion about what goes on inside the detention camp, and illustrate the desperation of detainees and their families on the outside, who, at best, can beg for help.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI just need somebody to please make sure that, like, get him some antibiotics or something. There\u2019s no number for this place,\u201d a woman who identified herself as Jessica pleaded, asking for medics to be sent for her fiance. \u201cI just need somebody to help.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Since opening, the detention center\u2019s activities have remained opaque, with limited information provided to detainees\u2019 families. Visits are not permitted and lawyers have faced challenges in gaining access.<\/p>\n

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The few details families receive come through alarming phone calls from detainees worried about their health and mistreatment at the facility. In turn, family members with no way to reach the Everglades detention camp call emergency services.<\/p>\n

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Calls from worried family members started pouring in last summer as the detention camp \u2014 promoted as an isolated complex built to hold the \u201cworst of the worst\u201d \u2014 was plastered across television screens and social media.<\/p>\n

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Alligator Alcatraz operates as its own mini city, equipped with emergency responders, medical staff and a dispatch team staffed primarily by private vendors. But the number publicly listed as the detention center\u2019s contact is for the Krome North Processing Center, a different facility located in South Dade.<\/p>\n

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Alligator Alcatraz\u2019s dispatch does not handle 911 calls. When the Sheriff\u2019s Office receives an emergency call, it forwards the information to the detention center for internal handling.<\/p>\n

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Esvin Rodezno, a 29-year-old detainee, had been seeking medical attention for two days when his fiance, Jessica, called 911 on Aug. 5.<\/p>\n

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She said that Rodezno was being refused care despite symptoms such as fatigue, sore throat and a rash that was \u201cspreading to his head, his arm.\u201d Medical staff at Alligator Alcatraz told him, \u201cYou\u2019re not dying,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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Jessica, who only provided her first name, was hoping the Collier County deputy would send a medical unit to the site to check on him.<\/p>\n

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