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Democratic Congresswoman Urges ICE to Cut Ties with Private Companies Running Detention Centers Due to Abuses

Ice Zoe Lofgren United States Democratic Party Newsweek
ICE detention center in Adelanto, California (Credit: Photo by John Moore/Getty Images)

U.S. Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren (CA-18) and U.S. Senator Alex Padilla led six of their California Democratic Congressional Delegation colleagues in signing a letter directed to ICE back on October 8 calling for the Golden State Annex and Mesa Verde ICE Processing Center in Kern County to terminate contracts with GEO Group due to "disturbing" claims of abuse of detainees.

The facilities, which were exposed in a report by the ACLU of Northern California in August, have garnered notoriety for the extensive record of inhumane conditions that immigrants face inside, which include hazardous living conditions, medical neglect, harassment, sleep deprivation, abuse of solitary confinement, and sexual assault.

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