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Moldy food, used underwear: inside the US prisons where Trump is jailing immigrants

Release Date: 2025-05-01
Media: The Guardian
Summary: Since February, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has increasingly transferred civil immigration detainees into Bureau of Prisons (BoP) facilities—places intended for criminal inmates. Detainees report unsanitary conditions, food and medical shortages, overcrowding, and lack of access to legal counsel or court information. Some were unaware of their case status or court dates, while others were held beyond their approved release dates.

Facilities like FCI Atlanta, FDC Miami, and FCI Berlin have been plagued with abuse scandals, neglect, and infrastructure failures. ICE’s expansion into these prisons is part of a broader Trump-era push for mass deportations, including plans to reopen closed facilities and use military bases. Advocates, attorneys, and even BoP staff warn that the system is overwhelmed and increasingly opaque, with detainees effectively "disappeared" from contact and oversight.

Lawmakers and rights groups are sounding alarms over the legality and human cost of this detention strategy, calling the conditions “unsafe,” “inhumane,” and a denial of due process.
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