SICK DETAINEES DESCRIBE POOR CARE AT FACILITIES RUN BY ICE CONTRACTOR
Mr. Trump’s immigration crackdown has been good for CoreCivic, which has opened a number of detention facilities in the past year. One of those is at a former state prison about 75 miles from Bakersfield, Calif., which started taking detainees last summer.
Just months later, lawyers with the American Civil Liberties Union brought a class-action lawsuit against ICE on behalf of sick immigrants at the facility. The lawyers said that detainees were denied insulin, cancer treatment and heart medications. The company has said the facility will bring in revenue of $130 million a year. Earlier this week, a judge ruled that ICE must install a monitor at the facility and provide “timely access to prescribed medications.”
At Dilley, which is about 70 miles south of San Antonio, immigration lawyers have logged more than 1,000 complaints of poor medical care since the facility was reopened by the Trump administration last April, according to Faisal Al-Juburi, the co-chief executive at the Refugee and Immigrant Center for Education and Legal Services, or Raices, which represents immigrant and refugee families in Texas.
As of January, more than 1,200 people were detained at Dilley, according to ICE …
