"More than 40 detainees inside the Adelanto ICE Processing Center started a hunger strike on Friday, May 15 to demand quicker medical attention and to protest meager food portions and mold in the showers, several detainees told the Southern California News Group.
As of Tuesday morning, an additional 20 people detained inside the Desert View Annex, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility next door, joined the hunger strike, activists said, to demand adequate medical and mental healthcare, nutritious food, bond reform, accountability for deaths in ICE custody, and to shut down the Adelanto ICE facilities. They’re also engaging in an economic boycott by not buying anything from commissary and not making phone calls, detainees said.
The Friday strike was prompted by a new report on California ICE detention centers released by the California attorney general’s office describing conditions as “cruel, inhumane, and unacceptable.”
