'Serious' health, safety concerns at immigration detention facility: inspector general

[inanna]

Source: ABC News

Mar 8, 2017, 10:24 PM ET

Numerous health risks, poor conditions and safety violations were found at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), detention facility in Orange, California, according to a report released Wednesday.

The report alleged that food was mishandled, the housing conditions were "unsatisfactory" and that the facility was violating protocols to separate high-risk detainees and low-risk detainees.

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"Of deepest concern" was the refrigeration units which were we observed to have "slimy, foul-smelling lunch meat that appeared to be spoiled."

"Detainees reported being repeatedly served lunch meat that smelled and tasted bad, which they rinsed with water before eating," said the report.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/health-safety-concerns-immigration-detention-facility-inspector-general/story?id=46005536

[SHRED]

1. AmeriKKKa

[luvMIdog]

2. I wish the same will happen to Trump and CO

[Solly Mack]

3. I know it's not the entire country

but there are vast pockets of cruelty, of people that are written off and forgotten.

I'll never understand it.

[duncang]

4. Can't seem to separate high-risk detainees and low-risk detainees

But wants to separate mother and child.

[atreides1]

5. An American Concentration Camp!

This falls under the Lick spittle Kelly and the DHS!

If I had the ability, I'd photo shop Kelly's head over Himmler's!!! And then post it!

[riversedge]

6. oh lordy. spoiled meat! Nothing worse!

[haele]

7. Hope that's sarcasm. Spoiled meat can kill.

If your immune system is in any way compromised, Botulism will kill you. Salmonella will kill you.
Give a 60 year old from Somalia or Yemen a turkey sandwich with meat that's just a bit "off" and a little bit rancidly iridescent, and s/he will get seriously sick. Or heck, bad mayo. Do you know how bad food poisoning can be? I do. Bad KFC Cole Slaw - must have been sitting in a bain marie unrefrigerated for a couple hours - was the culprit.
And I got to suffer in the relative comfort of my own home with a solicitous rent mate that made sure I was comfortable with clean pillows, towels and blankets in the bathroom floor, and willingly brought me lots of drink for the eight whole hours of misery I was awake there. I doubt the poor souls stuck in an ICE facility have that measure of care.

When I grew up in the 1960's there were still warnings about canned or packaged food where there was bulging or if it looked shiny or smelled off. And if you do any home canning, or store wet/damp produce in a pantry instead of in the refrigerator, there's still all sorts of warnings on checking your food for spoilage before you even try to eat it.

Serving spoiled meat is a sign of "I don't care if you live or die". Not the sort of mindless and casual cruelty you should ever accept from anyone who is in the business of providing care for people who are being held - for any reason.

Whatsoever cruelty anyone would do to someone because "they deserve it" - will likewise be done to you if they think you deserve it.

People who are working in the legal arena, especially with the public, need to be professionals - or they need to be finding another job.

Sorry, but that comment just hit me the wrong way.

Haele