US female migrant detainees 'given bags to use as toilets'

[Judi Lynn]

Source: BBC News


7 hours ago

A California congressman is calling for an inquiry into claims that female immigration detainees are being locked in rooms for 23 hours a day and given plastic bags to use as a toilet.

After visiting the facility near San Francisco, Mark DeSaulnier is urging the US attorney general to investigate.

One detainee begged to be deported to Honduras rather than stay in the jail, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.

The Contra Costa County sheriff, who runs the centre, denies the claims.

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-42169969

[icymist]

1. Cruel and Unusual Punishment

I guess that means nothing anymore.

[Solly Mack]

2. K/R

Lot of sick people in America.

[kimbutgar]

3. There will some more awful stuff coming out in the future about these detention camps

Modern day concentration camps. Twilter is our modern day hitler.

[marble falls]

4. This is pure and simple meanspiritedness. Truly dispicable.

[PatrickforO]

5. Brutal slime.

A marked similarity to the Gestapo thugs of the Third Reich. Disgusting assholes.

Talk about too much power and too little accountability.

[burrowowl]

6. Investigated, tried and convicted with long sentences.

Unfortunately they will probably have better treatment than these women.