"The ruling is following a lawsuit filed earlier this month by the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of San Francisco and other groups. It challenged the Trump administration's policies that allow ICE to arrest immigrants when they show up at the building for court. "ICE itself understood for years that it cannot keep people there overnight or for multiple nights, but around late spring, ICE began holding people overnight and then for multiple nights," said Wells."
"The lawsuit points to conditions that are categorized as inhumane including mats that are often too small for detainees' bodies, and "very dirty." "Unsanitary conditions" with toilets that were not cleaned for multiple days, described as "very dirty" and filling the room with odor. The suit also points to "overcrowded" cells with multiple detainees sleeping "one foot of space between them, in order to avoid sleeping next to the open toilet.""
A Ninth Circuit order requires the Department of Justice to improve conditions inside the ICE holding cells at 630 Sansome in San Francisco effective immediately. The order follows a lawsuit filed by the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of San Francisco and other groups challenging policies that allowed ICE to arrest immigrants when they appeared for court. The lawsuit documents inhumane conditions including undersized mats, unsanitary toilets left uncleaned for days producing strong odors, and overcrowded cells forcing detainees to sleep with only one foot of space between them to avoid the open toilet. The facility is described as an office building, not a detention facility.
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