Judge orders US to provide California ICE detainees with medical care, attorneys and blankets

The US government must provide detainees at a California immigration detention center with adequate medical care, access to attorneys, and "temperature-appropriate clothing and blankets", a federal judge has ruled… 

 Residents at the facility had previously described the center as a "torture chamber" and "hell on earth" in interviews with the Guardian…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/11/california-ice-detainees-medical-care-attorneys-blankets

 

‘It’s a public health risk’: nurse decries infection control at US anti-abortion crisis center

The center was using an expired disinfectant to sanitize an essential piece of equipment for early-pregnancy ultrasounds: the transvaginal probe. And that disinfectant, medical researchers have warned in recent years, doesn't kill the human papillomavirus, a widespread and potentially deadly sexually transmitted infection responsible for more than 90% of cervical cancers, as well as cancers of the genitals and throat...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/02/kentucky-crisis-pregnancy-center-anti-abortion-malpractices

DoJ to investigate Alabama’s sewage failures over possible discrimination

…The crux of the federal investigation is whether access to sanitation systems in Alabama's Lowndes county is based on race. The DoJ will examine whether the state and county health departments violated the civil rights of Black residents in Lowndes county, by blocking their access to adequate sanitation systems, thereby increasing their risk of a host of health problems such as parasitic infections…

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/09/doj-investigate-alabama-sewage-failures-possible-discrimination

Trump, Pence falsely blame Democrats for detained children suffering at the border - ThinkProgress.org

President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence both tried to blame Democrats for the inhumane conditions suffered by children and families detained on the southern U.S. border during interviews that aired on Sunday. Reports this week revealed migrant children detained in U.S. custody for weeks without sufficient food, water, or sanitation...
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-pence-falsely-blame-democrats-for-detained-children-suffering-at-the-border-ef6875464db7/