Immigrant detainees in California are confined in prison-like conditions for up to 22 hours a day, while the counties and cities that contract with ICE exercise little or no oversight of local detention facilities, according to a pair of blistering state reports released Tuesday.
The reports from state attorney general Xavier Becerra and state auditor Elaine Howle chronicle shoddy medical care and mental health treatment that imperils the health and safety of immigrant detainees. Migrants are denied access to family and lawyers as they await civil immigration hearings or face deportation orders.
Howle describes cities that act as financial pass-throughs, funneling dollars from ICE to private contractors without meaningful oversight of the detention facilities in their locales.
[For more on this story by Nicole Knight, go to http://www.calhealthreport.org...n-detention-centers/]
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