"Fernando Gomez Ruiz had been eating at a lunch truck outside Home Depot when agents arrested him and 10 others in early October. The diabetic father of two, who has lived in the Los Angeles area for 22 years, was detained and then quickly transferred to California's biggest detention facility, where he's been unable to get insulin regularly and now nurses a worsening hole in his foot. He fears now not only being deported, but losing a foot."
""Conditions in California City are horrific," said Tess Borden, a lawyer with the Prison Law Office. "The conditions are punishing and they are meant to punish." "Defendants are failing to provide constitutionally adequate care for the people in the facility," Borden said. "Mr. Gomez Ruiz is just tragically one such example." The complaint details alleged "decrepit" conditions inside California's newest detention facility, where sewage bubbles up shower drains and calls for medical help go unanswered for weeks."
Seven immigrants filed a federal class action lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security and ICE alleging inhumane and punitive conditions at California City Detention Facility in the Mojave Desert. The 2,500‑bed facility opened without proper permits in August and faced a hunger strike by inmates the following month. Detainees report frigid cells, sewage backups, insects, inadequate food and water, denied medications, and unresponsive medical care. One detainee, Fernando Gomez Ruiz, a diabetic detained in October, has lacked regular insulin, developed a worsening hole in his foot, and fears amputation and deportation. Lawyers contend the facility fails to provide constitutionally adequate care.
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