Immigrant Detainees Receiving Insufficient Medical Care And Being Kept In Poor Conditions, Attorneys Say
Medical staff at the federal prison in Victorville, in California's Mojave Desert, was stretched thin after dealing with an infectious outbreak.
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Immigrant Detainees Held At Victorville Prison Face Hunger, Disease
At the federal prison in Victorville, in California's Mojave Desert, hundreds of asylum seekers and migrants who entered the country without authorization are hungry and receiving insufficient medical care, according to immigration attorneys. Meanwhile, prison medical staff are stretched thin and, after already having to deal with an infectious disease outbreak, employees are working overtime and some support staff are filling in as correctional officers as they struggle to meet the needs of the growing inmate population, according to the president of the prison employees' union. (Plevin, 7/18)
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KQED:
Migrants Allege They Were Subjected To Dirty Detention Facilities, Bad Food And Water
Documents filed Monday in U.S. District Court in California and viewed by NPR late Tuesday contain interviews with some 200 individuals detained under the Trump administration's zero tolerance policy, many of whom related poor conditions at the centers. The documents are part of a long-running lawsuit that resulted in the 1997 Flores Settlement Agreement. They were filed on the migrants' behalf by the Los Angeles-based Center for Human Rights & Constitutional Law, which is demanding that the government meet minimum standard conditions as laid out in the Flores agreement. The Department of Justice could not immediately be reached for comment. (Neuman, 7/18)