"They say it is a detention center. It is a prison with a name change,"
"I've never been in prison. It's very hard and day by day, it's getting worse,"
"Every day is like one year."
California City Detention Facility houses roughly 500 immigrants in a 2,560-bed Mojave Desert complex under prisonlike controls, including locked cells, bunk beds, thin blankets, head counts, lockdowns, segregation and guarded yard movements. More than a hundred men staged hunger strikes protesting poor conditions and inadequate access to medication, affecting diabetics and people with psychiatric needs. Plumbing failures left toilets and sinks clogged for days. Some detainees who spoke back were handcuffed and placed in isolation. Many detainees have no criminal records and report cold cells, interrupted sleep and uncertainty about their futures.
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