#detention-conditions

#detention-conditions

Speculating as to the reason why the number has declined, Lander reasoned that it could be the result of a temporary restraining order barring ICE from holding detainees in cramped and unhygienic conditions on the 10th floor of the Federal Plaza building. The conditions came to light through a video secretly recorded in July showing 10th-floor detainees within cramped conditions, with people sleeping on the ground in dirty, unwashed clothes. The video further showed the people located near a shared toilet with no privacy.

My father and others do not have beds and are forced to sleep on the floor. He once found six or seven bedbugs in his blanket when he woke up, said his daughter Mehraveh Khandan, who described horrific sanitary conditions in the prison.