As part of the agreement, the once-crowded site will be limited to no more than 180 detainees, or 25 percent of overall capacity.
Under the terms of the settlement last week between detainees who sued the site’s operator, Immigration Centers of America, and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, no more than 180 detainees will be allowed inside the facility at a time, with empty dormitory halls spaced between those that are occupied with no more than 30 people.
Simon Sandoval-Moshenberg, legal director of the Immigrant Advocacy Program at the Legal Aid Justice Center, which represented some of the plaintiffs in the“Then they made matters worse by failing to ensure protection within the detention center, and failing to provide adequate medical care for those who got infected,” Sandoval-Moshenberg said. “Our clients are suffering the effects of long covid to this day. This settlement will make sure that never happens again.
That incident involved the transfer of dozens of detainees on those flights as a way to skirt rules that bar ICE employees from traveling on the charter flights unless detainees are also aboard, according to a Department of Homeland Security official with direct knowledge of the operation and a former ICE official who learned about it from other personnel. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal decisions.
As part of the settlement, the Biden administration and ICA also agreed to alter protocols for disciplining inmates — another source of complaints after several plaintiffs claimed that they were pepper-sprayed by facility guards when protesting their crowded living conditions.
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