'A lack of oversight': California Attorney General wants to see changes at immigration detention centers

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Source: Scripps News

Posted 8:40 PM, May 18, 2026 and last updated 8:40 PM, May 18, 2026



A lack of health care, not enough food and excessive use of pepper spray: Those are just some of the findings at lockups housing thousands of immigrants, detailed in a new report released by California officials. Now the California Attorney General is telling Scripps News what he wants to see happen next.

Inspectors from the California Attorney General’s office spoke to about 200 immigrants locked up in private detention centers. They discovered as the population of those jails grew, staff were overwhelmed. Conditions rapidly deteriorated and continue to get worse. The new report details a lack of medical care, including at the Adelanto ICE detention center that we have been investigating. It’s where four detainees have died.

As part of our continuing ICE Inc. investigation, one mother talked to us about her son dying from a skin infection that was allowed to fester. The attorney general’s office says many immigrants struggle to access medical care, and that in three cases, detainees weren’t able to get emergency help right away.

They also found inappropriate uses of pepper spray, including in confined areas, and inadequate food and clean drinking water. One member of the AG’s staff personally observed murky water at Adelanto. And they found trouble at California’s newest detention center, Cal City, saying it’s at “crisis level” of health care understaffing, a place where immigrants say it’s so cold they’re wearing socks as shirt sleeves to stay warm.

Read more: https://www.scrippsnews.com/politics/immigration/a-lack-of-oversight-california-attorney-general-wants-to-see-changes-at-immigration-detention-centers

[LymphocyteLover]

1. Horrifying. Another crime against humanity to add to the list

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2. What's an "immigration detention center?"

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3. Modern day euphemism for "internment camp" which was an American euphemism for "concentration camp."

For profit places like Core Civic that ghoulishly make money off human misery without batting one eye at it. Soul-dead and worthless.

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4. There is a report that these places charge $5

For one phone call. The only way the prisoners get money is by working on whatever labor contract the prisons set up.
Wage is $1 per day. Slavery is still legal.

They don't even bat an eye. There are some real shit souls at the top of this American Ponzi Scheme we call a country.

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5. Slavery is illegal except in prison. 13th amendment made that very clear.

Our system rewards those with the dark triad personality. With no conscience, you can do anything. With no remorse, you can continue to do anything. With the rewards given, you will continue to do anything.

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6. I have little faith remaining in our institutions

and the basic infrastructure holding them up. Justice for All was a veneer and never a promise. The power structures bury history, because they apply the same motives and tactics to achieve the same ends with the same results. A luxurious planet is barely hanging on and will at some point stop tolerating us. We will continue to be at each other's throats while our elected footmen to greed are cowed by the arguments that community is communism and sharing is theft, throwing the marginalized and others under that Exceptional bus.