 In other letters, several detainees wrote that they heard screaming coming from Jose's cell and believed he was beaten up by guards. One wrote that Jose was tasered and pepper sprayed, but all of them suggested that he was mistreated in detention. It's hard to know for sure which, if any of the accounts were firsthand, and which were rumors, the kind that fly through the detention center when big things happen. But it was clear that detainees at Eloy were upset and freaked out because nobody at the detention center was telling them what was going on.