Suit filed against ICE over ‘dire’ conditions at largest US immigration detention facility

Source: US news | The Guardian · Bias: Center Left

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In first suit over conditions at Texas’s Camp East Montana, plaintiffs allege ‘dangerous and abusive’ environment with ‘abhorrent’ medical careThe first lawsuit relating to the largest immigration detention facility in the US was filed early on Saturday against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), accusing the agency of “dire” conditions that severely violate the human and constitutional rights of those locked up at the camp in Texas.A clutch of legal organizations is suing via a class action complaint, listing four detainees as plaintiffs for themselves and on behalf of all those currently held as civil detainees at Camp East Montana or who will be held there in the future.“abhorrent medical and mental health care”;“inappropriate use of force”;“indiscriminate use of solitary confinement”;“terrible, rotten, spoiled and inadequate” food;“outbreaks of disease”;“unsanitary living conditions”;“sexual harassment by guards”. Continue reading...

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Suit filed against ICE over ‘dire’ conditions at largest US immigration detention facility
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Suit filed against ICE over ‘dire’ conditions at largest US immigration detention facility

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In first suit over conditions at Texas’s Camp East Montana, plaintiffs allege ‘dangerous and abusive’ environment with ‘abhorrent’ medical careThe first lawsuit relating to the largest immigration detention facility in the US was filed early on Saturday against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), accusing the agency of “dire” conditions that severely violate the human and constitutional rights of those locked up at the camp in Texas.A clutch of legal organizations is suing via a class action complaint, listing four detainees as plaintiffs for themselves and on behalf of all those currently held as civil detainees at Camp East Montana or who will be held there in the future.“abhorrent medical and mental health care”;“inappropriate use of force”;“indiscriminate use of solitary confinement”;“terrible, rotten, spoiled and inadequate” food;“outbreaks of disease”;“unsanitary living conditions”;“sexual harassment by guards”. Continue reading...