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Scathing report on safety issues at private immigration detention center
https://www.voiceofsandiego.org/topics/news/scathing-report-describes-serious-health-and-safety-issues-at-private-immigration-detention-center/A scathing report by the Department of Homeland Security Office of the Inspector General found the Adelanto Immigration and Customs Enforcement Processing Center, roughly 85 miles northeast of Los Angeles and run by the private GEO Group, found significant health and safety concerns in the facility, including nooses in detainee cells, improper and overly restrictive segregation and inadequate detainee medical care.
The report resulted from an unannounced inspection of the facility in May. It’s the latest in years’ worth of problems plaguing the facility, which holds many asylum-seekers who turn themselves in at California’s border and immigrants arrested by ICE throughout Southern California, including a couple who ended up in detention and deportation proceedings after being pulled over by San Diego Sheriff’s deputies near Mission Bay last summer.
“While at the center, we identified serious issues relating to safety, detainee rights, and medical care that require ICE’s immediate attention,” the report reads. “These issues not only constitute violations of ICE detention standards but also represent significant threats to the safety, rights, and health of detainees.”
A spokeswoman for Sen. Kamala Harris, who has written bills aimed at improving oversight of immigration detention facilities, slammed the conditions at Adelanto in a statement to VOSD.
“Sen. Harris has fiercely opposed this administration’s indiscriminate approach to immigration enforcement that harms public safety,” said Brenda Gonzalez, a spokeswoman for Harris. “As Sen. Harris has noted, it is unconscionable to subject detainees to inhumane conditions, including issues of sexual abuse, medical negligence, spoiled or rotten food at this facility and other immigrant detention facilities. Those in charge must be held accountable.”
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