In June, we received a disturbing call from inside the privately-run South Louisiana ICE Processing Center, where a woman, two months pregnant, reported not receiving emergency medical care after she began experiencing abdominal pain and bleeding large blood clots.

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“Medical care inside of detention facilities is insufficient in general. So, when we add in more specified procedures or medical care, that’s just completely inexistent,” said Diaz.

"We’re outraged that yet another life has needlessly been taken by the immigration detention system," said Amanda Díaz, Organizing Director with Freedom for Immigrants. "For decades, detention has been defined by ICE’s deadly medical neglect, resulting in premature and preventable deaths."

Freedom for Immigrants has long documented abuse of solitary in immigration detention. It's frequently used by officials inside immigration prisons as a means of coercion, retaliation, and medical abuse.

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As our Organizing Director Amanda Díaz shared with The Marshall Project and Univision, the irreparable harm of solitary confinement is only getting worse with zero accountability in the system: “What’s really scary right now is there’s no third-party witnesses to what’s happening inside."

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"CoreCivic must not be allowed to continue operating outside legal and ethical boundaries. We demand transparency, the enforcement of city and state laws, and the immediate closure of the CCCF. CoreCivic is subject to California laws and city laws, just as any other entity."

“CoreCivic’s operation of the California City Correctional Center is a direct threat to human rights, public safety, and the values we hold as Californians," said Amanda Díaz, Organizing Director with Freedom for Immigrants (FFI), in a statement demanding action from local officials.

CoreCivic also appears to be operating the facility in violation of state law, Senate Bill 29, which prohibits local governments from issuing building permits for privately-run immigration detention centers without first providing 180 days public notice and holding at least 2 public hearings.

City officials previously alerted CoreCivic that the city found serious safety concerns at the prison, including a failed fire department inspection, and that the facility could not legally operate in the city.

Mega prison corporation CoreCivic is detaining people in the custody of ICE and the U.S. Marshals Service at the prison despite its failure to comply with California law and obtain the required city permits.

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"There is perhaps no more singular site where past and present are indistinguishable, where the systematized degradation of Black people has been reinvented over the centuries — from plantation, to forced labor camp, and now detention — always in service of white supremacy and anti-Blackness."

Our previous study on shackling found pervasive physical and mental health harms, including 1 in 5 shackled people reporting electric shocks.

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“This will be a tool used to extend the reach of the government from just the folks it can manage to put in physical detention to an additional hundreds of thousands more that it can surveil," said Rivera.

“If we know our rights and we know how to navigate a situation, we’re less likely to harm ourselves inadvertently in the process,” she said. “Knowledge is power.”

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