Hunger Strikers at California’s Adelanto Detention Center

“The strikers presented a list of demands they wanted delivered to ICE.”

blackagendareport.com

Article Reprint

Miami’s Krome Service Processing Center has a well-deserved reputation for the particular cruelties it has dispensed upon the Haitian asylum seekers detained within its walls. Yet Krome’s notoriety may soon be superseded by a new breed of detention centers in the southwestern United States. A string of private prisonscontracted by ICE operate near the US-Mexico border. In Chaparral , New Mexico, the Otero County Prison Facilityis run by the Management & Training Corporation, as is Calexico , California’s Imperial Regional Detention Facility. San Diego’s Otay Mesa Detention Facility is managed by CoreCivic , a company previously known as the Corrections Corporation of America , while the Adelanto Detention Facility, in Adelanto, California, is run by the GEO Group, formerly Wackenhut. While the majority of detainees locked up in these facilities are from Central America, they also hold increasing numbers of Haitians, non-criminal asylum seekers who journeyed to the US not by sea across the treacherous Florida Straits, but seven-thousand miles overland from Brazil, through South and Central America.

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *