When government inspectors made an unannounced visit last year to the privately run immigration detention center in Adelanto, Calif., they found inadequate medical and dental care, improper use of solitary confinement, and perhaps more shockingly, braided bedsheets facility staff called “nooses” hanging
When government inspectors made an unannounced visit last year to the privately run immigration detention center in Adelanto, Calif., they found inadequate medical and dental care, improper use of solitary confinement and perhaps more shockingly, braided bedsheets facility staff called “nooses” hanging from ceilings in detainee cells.
The spat between the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general and the Nakamoto Group over Adelanto epitomizes the debate over oversight of the immigration detention system at a time when DHS is locking up a record number of people for violating immigration laws. At stake are the health and safety of over 50,000 people kept in detention on an average day.
Nakamoto inspectors wrote that they observed no hanging bedsheets during their inspection, and that based on data provided by the GEO Group, Adelanto had experienced no “serious suicide attempts” in 2018. Villalobos was also instructed to do extra cleaning in the kitchen, where he worked. He said that the Nakamoto inspectors mainly interviewed GEO staff and English speaking detainees, and did not go into detainees’ cells in the section of the prison where he was held.
Nakamoto wrote that the inspector general’s office should “use inspectors with detention and corrections backgrounds for future inspections to avoid … embarrassment to their office and ICE, especially since the inaccuracies have now been reported by the news media as fact.” Scott Shuchart, who worked for eight years for the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, said that “Nakamoto is not wrong that the OIG lacks specialized expertise in detention,” and it was possible that the inspector general had gotten some details wrong in its report. But Shuchart said that “Nakamoto has no credibility because of the volume of problems it has failed to uncover at multiple facilities over multiple years. ...
Nakamoto’s inspections of Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Ga., found the facility was compliant with 39 out of 39 applicable detention standards in both May 2017 and May 2018. Stewart, like Adelanto, is run by a for-profit prison company, CoreCivic, which is GEO Group’s largest competitor. Like Adelanto, it is one of the largest immigration jails in America, with a capacity of nearly 2,000 beds.
Documents from Nakamoto’s inspection of Stewart in May 2018 note Jimenez’s death, but do not contain any mention of the guard’s firing for falsifying detention logs, nor does it analyze whether Jimenez’s extended stay in solitary confinement may have worsened his mental condition. It also does not discuss evidence that, in Free’s words, Stewart was “woefully understaffed,” as documented by the DHS inspector general in late 2017.
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