Thread by @MigrantFreedom

GEO can’t cover up the truth. Detention is inhumane, unnecessary, and carries a shocking record of abuse and in-custody deaths. We’ve been visiting with impacted persons detained at #Adelanto since 2012. We know just how terrible this immigrant prison is.

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In 2015 we co-authored an investigative report w/@DetentionWatch that exposed not only the sheer brutality of #Adelanto, but also how it was far from the economic savior private prison GEO Group pitched it to be.

We need #CommunitiesNotCages

freedomforimmigrants.org/adelanto

@DetentionWatch In 2018, we released the first national study focusing on abuse motivated by hate and bias toward asylum seekers and other individuals in U.S. immigration detention.

Here's how GEO staff verbally abused immigrants in their custody:
freedomforimmigrants.org/report-on-hate

@DetentionWatch One woman described her time in Adelanto this way:
"I receive here mental and physical harm, neglect from medical staff and officers. Every day humiliation, insults, and shouts at me.”

We must #ShutDownAdelanto and #AbolishDetention

@DetentionWatch "I have been a victim of [...] the medical negligence that takes place at Adelanto. It’s not an isolated incident, I see this every day. This happened to me and will continue to happen to others as long as the Adelanto exists." #AbolishDetention

imm-print.com/medical-neglec…

@DetentionWatch "Adelanto is more like a prison than a detention center. We have to stay in our rooms and can only leave at specific times. The food is not good and there's not enough of it. The medical care is also bad; to see the doctor you have to wait 10 days." imm-print.com/a-sudanese-act…

@DetentionWatch We cannot continue to live in a society that abuses, dehumanizes, and incarcerates immigrants.

The city of #Adelanto must make the right decision and reject any proposal from GEO to expand immigrant jails and prisons in violation of California law #CommunitiesNotCages