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Three of the four counties in California, empowered to inspect the federal Immigration The detention facilities did not do so and the fourth has only made the basic food reviews this year, records received from ShaaaTters Show.
If checked, local employees would provide an additional layer of supervision at a time when the number of people held in the detention centers Discovering the Trump Administration on unauthorized immigrants.
Two state laws provide state, district and local power staff to review the conditions for health and safety in private establishments for retaining immigration.
The first, passed During the first Trump administrationAllows the Prosecutor General to check for violations of national detention standards and health or safety issues. The AG Service has used this power to publish annual reports on conditions at detention centers, including One this year This suspected lack of mental health.
The second, a law of 2024, enables the counties to Check private holding facilitiesS In the past, cities have inspected prisons and prisons, finding mold, rats and other health disorders. But district health officials did not use this power to check the federal arrest of immigration.
In Kern County – where three detention centers operate – a health officer, through a lawyer, stated in testimony before a federal judge that there is no “intention” to exercise his new authority to inspect the facilities to ensure that they meet state and local health standards.
Companies that run the detention centers through contracts with the federal government claim that they are seriously responsible for adhering to federal standards and maintaining human rights. Man unsuccessfully brought a case to cancel A new California Verification ActHe claims that this is an unnecessary invasion of the federal government.
More than 5,700 people are in the immigration childn in California increases by 84% of spring. On April 16, 3100 people were detained in the state, according to California General Prosecutor Last reportS
Defenders of the detainees pay attention to what they describe as unhealthy conditions, including at the most recent state detention center. It opened in Kern County without appropriate permits or business license, as required by state legislation, according to the mayor of the California city.
The Corecivic 2.560 Immigration Center is located 70 acres in the Mojave Desert about 80 miles east of Bakersfield.
A detainee, which is published in the name of a lobby, has been closed at the California establishment since August 28. She said some detainees did not receive the medicines that needed more than 20 days. She asked Calmatters not to completely identify her because she was afraid of revenge by Corecivic Guards for conversations with a reporter.
“There is no interest from Corecivic to take care of people with diabetes problems and people who have heart problems or other health conditions. They really do not care about the detainees and do not give us proper medical treatment in the detention,” Loba said.
She said she was watching five people in need of emergency care because they couldn’t get medicines. Another detained by the California city described similar conditions in an interview with Calmatters.
Ryan Gustin, a spokesman for Corecivic, said the site has stable medical and mental care on the spot, including 24/7 access to these services. He said these services adhere to the “standards set out by our government partners”.
“There is no delay in people who receive their prescription medications,” Gustin said.
Counties inspecting the Law of Verification
In the four districts where the immigration and the implementation of the customs authorities have detention, only one district health department conducts the type of inspections authorized under the law of 2024. A spokesman for the San Bernardino County stated that the county had the authority to check for the disease and the “common health and sewage”, but later he said that the reviews were reported that the reviews were reported that the reviews were reported.
Officials from two other districts said they would use their new authority to respond to specific concerns, but that they have not yet made any checks.
The Imperial County Health Department said it would respond to the complaint “If the facility falls within our legal inspection body.” The health department of San Diego County said only that “he is exploring how to effectively operate this law in his jurisdiction.”
California has seven immigration retention centers: Adento Ice Processing Center and Desert View app in San Bernardino County; The Golden State app, the Mesa Verde ice processing facility and the California detention facility in Kern County; The imperial regional detention in the imperial district; and the Otay Mesa detention center in San Diego County.
ICE pays to the prison company Geo Group to operate four of the centers: Adelato, Desert View App, Golden State Annex and Mesa Verde Ice Center.
The MTC is managing the Center for the County Imperial, while Corecivic rules Otay Mesa and California City.
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The law in 2024 gave local health officers the power to check private detention facilities, as they consider necessary, but this does not require them to do so unless requested by local legislators or law enforcement agencies. And it does not specify exactly what the district health inspectors should check, despite the legislators and correspondents of the bill, citing "detainees facing access to access to timely medical care", as one of the reasons is the new law.
With the advancing the bill, the legislators also cited the Covid-19 outbreak of May 2020 at the Otay Mesa detention center, which led to infection with over 300 employees and detained persons. "The conditions in these facilities not only affect the life of the detainees, but also affect the surrounding communities," writes the author of the bill, State Sen. Maria Elena DurazoDemocrat from Los Angeles.
He passed without a recorded opposition and with unanimous votes in the legislature.
Geo Group said it challenged the law by arguing that it was unconstitutional, as it withdrew from the federal government's powers to run the detention centers. With an extension, the GEO claims an intergovernmental immunity as a contractor.
"This case includes the latest in a series of California's attempts to ban the federal implementation of immigration in the state or so significantly burdens of such efforts to stimulate federal agencies and contractors involved in this constitutionally funded national security function from California," said GEO lawyers.
In the federal court this year, County Prosecutor Jeremy McNut said that district health official Christopher Lyon did not want to use the new law to inspect the facilities of Mesa Verde and Golden State in his district. McNut said Lyon would inspect the facility if the governor ordered him, but otherwise he "does not intend to inspect the facility."
"If he is not ordered to do so, then he has no intention of doing it, he is not really interested in having the right to do it or not," McNut told Lyon. "We do not believe that it has an obligation to inspect the facility ... has no commitment or desire to inspect."
A federal judge dumped the case in May, leaving the law to remain in place. Lyon did not respond to a request for comment on whether his position had changed in the light of the influx of new detainees and the opening of a new detention center.
Adlanto Cleared County Review
In the only county, using his powers to access to detention centers, Inspector of San Bernardino County spent about an hour on May 29 at the Adelato Food and Service Center. The facility passed as per Verification ReportsS
San Bernardino County Inspector Mary Ann Glass did not make notes or comments and she found no shortcomings or violations in the facility, The documentation showsS
"Yes, our inspections are limited to food processing and service," said San Bernardino Health Department spokesman Francis Delapaz.
Adelato is where a 39-year-old detained was detained shortly before his death in September.
Internal emails Obtained by Los Angeles Times Show that about two weeks after arriving in Adelato in August, Ismail Ayala-Uribe reported symptoms, including coughing, fever and severe pain. The staff put his condition as a potentially life -threatening and last week accompanied him to the medical center of the facility in a wheelchair, the newspaper reports. About an hour and a half later, medical staff sent him back to his hostel. He was sent to hospital only three days later, where he died.
Adelato detained, who spoke to Calmatters, provided they were not baptized because they were afraid of revenge, said the sites were crowded and took a lot of time to access medicines and medical help.
An immigrant who was arrested in the Los Angeles ice raid in June and spent more than a month in Adelato, said it took three days to be appointed a bed when he arrived at the facility.
During this time, he was not allowed to shower or change clothes and was not allowed to call his family. He said the hostel he had in the end had doubled in the population to his full capacity of about 90 people. The staff, he said, asked the volunteers to keep the paths and the windows clean, and the detainees waited longer than three days to hear about medical requests.
"Everyone became cough, the flu, with the air cold all day," he said. "Almost 50% of people were like that."
A spokesman for Geo Group said the company provides 24/7 access to medical attention.
"Geo categorically rejects these unfounded allegations," said spokesman Christopher Ferreira in email to Calmatters. "Our contracts also set strict restrictions on the capacity of the facility. Simply put, our facilities are never overcrowded."
California tried to ban the detention with profit
Federal government's own inspections show allegations of abuse and possible gaps in the prevention of suicides at the Adelato facility. In 2024, the Found Service for Surveillance of Detention A detained one who claims that an officer inappropriately squeezed his chest and genitals during a search and another told the inspectors that he had thoughts of self -harm due to poor conditions inside the facility.
State inspectors released a report in April that documents similar problems with the conditions throughout the country. Personnel shortage, poor coordination between medical and mental health suppliers and widespread problems with keeping records contributed to the risks to the detainees, The report is indicatedS
Prosecutor General Rob Bonta admitted that state and local supervision of detention facilities was limited, especially since the state in 2019 tried to ban private facilities with profit, Bill Bont is the author as a legislator. The Appellate Court of the 9th round Find the law unconstitutionalS
Legislators "believe that the conditions and practices in these detention centers are so bad that they should be completely prohibited. And unfortunately it was struck," Bont told Calmatters.
"As these are federal detention centers, there is a limit to what I can do, what the California legislative can do. The organ relying more on the federal government, especially in the congress," he said.
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