Hunger Strikers in Adelanto ICE Jail Moved to Solitary After Meeting Congressmen
Last Monday, California Reps. Judy Chu, Jimmy Gomez, and Pete Aguilar visited Adelanto Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Processing Center as the hunger strike in the immigration jail entered its second week. The Democrats met with three of the hunger strikers, who gave them a petition, signed by some 150 people inside the facility, speaking of inhumane conditions inside the jail and degrading treatment by staff. The Adelanto ICE jail is run by private prison company GEO Group.
The next day, GEO Group staff entered a unit “in riot gear holding pepper spray, tear gas canisters and zip ties,” and removed two of the people who had met with congressional staff the day before. And on Wednesday, they removed the third person, according to other detainees.
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Either these dems are in cahoots with GEO, or someone inside the prison leaked the visit to GEO. Either way, this is fucking horrific.
Agreed on this being fucking horrific (and a straight up violation of the first amendment's prohibition on government restrictions of political speech), but I don't think there's any way anyone could visit an inmate in any prison without the jailers knowing. The fact that GEO group took that knowledge and singled these detainees out for retaliatory treatment because they didn't like their speech is 100% fucking bullshit, but how they learned about that speech in the first place is pretty straightforward.