For around 15 hours, immigration detention officers kept Raúl Suárez Herrero confined in a cage slightly larger than a phone booth, where he feared snakes and endured mosquitoes in the middle of Florida swampland, the former detainee alleged.

A Department of Homeland Security watchdog confirmed the use of the phone booth-sized cages at the now-shuttered Florida detention camp in a Sept. 11 report.

A DHS spokesperson said he agency provides long-standing medical, dental and mental health services, three meals a day that are evaluated by certified dietitians, clean water, clothing, bedding and hygiene products and access to phones to talk with family and lawyers.

Suárez said his experience has left him psychologically “shattered.”

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