Wendy Fry CalMatters Democratic U.S. Sens. Alex Padilla and Adam Schiff this week conducted an oversight visit at the state’s newest and largest immigrant detention center, located in California City, about 100 miles north of Los Angeles. In remarks to reporters, both highlighted what they described as inadequate medical care at the site. “The most frequent feedback we got was the inadequacy of the medical care they are receiving,” said Schiff. He described meeting a diabetic detainee who he said has not received treatment for her condition in two months. “That’s frightening,” he said. More than 1,400 people are currently held at the California City Detention Facility, run by the private for-profit prison company CoreCivic in the middle of the Mojave [...]
California’s newest ICE center has 1,400 detainees. What Adam Schiff and Alex Padilla saw there
