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More than 40 people began a hunger strike inside the Adelanto ICE Processing Center on Friday to demand quicker medical attention and to protest meager food portions and mold in the showers, several detained people told the Southern California News Group.<\/p>\n

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As of Tuesday morning, an additional 20 people detained inside the Desert View Annex, an ICE facility next door, joined the hunger strike, activists said, to demand adequate medical and mental health care, nutritious food, and accountability for deaths in ICE custody.<\/p>\n

The Friday strike was prompted by a new report on California ICE detention centers released by the California Attorney General\u2019s office describing conditions as \u201ccruel, inhumane, and unacceptable.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are doing this because the conditions are horrible, it\u2019s inhumane. To get medical help, it takes two weeks. You have to literally fall on the floor in order for this to happen,\u201d said one detained man. His name is being withheld because he fears retaliation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe food I wouldn\u2019t feed to my neighbor\u2019s dog. \u2026The facility is dirty. The treatment, the names we are called \u2026 No one should have to go through this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

At least five deaths in ICE custody have been connected with the Adelanto ICE facilities since the beginning of Trump\u2019s second term, four of which are allegedly associated with substandard medical care, according to the newly released on immigration detention in California by the state\u2019s Attorney General\u2019s office.<\/p>\n

In a response to questions and a request for comment, the Department of Homeland Security claimed that there is no hunger strike taking place inside the Adelanto ICE facilities.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor the record: During hunger strikes, ICE continues to provide three meals a day, delivered to the detained alien\u2019s room, and an adequate supply of drinking water or other beverages,\u201d said an unnamed DHS spokesperson in the statement.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAll detainees are provided with 3 meals a day, clean water, clothing, bedding, showers, soap, and toiletries. Illegal aliens also have access to phones to communicate with their family members and lawyers. Certified dieticians evaluate meals. In fact, ICE has higher detention standards than most U.S. prisons that hold actual U.S. citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n

GEO Group, the for-profit prison company that owns and manages the Adelanto ICE facilities, referred all questions to ICE.<\/p>\n

ICE did not respond to questions or a request for comment.<\/p>\n

In January, a federal lawsuit was filed by two law firms and an LA nonprofit against federal authorities and agencies, alleging inhumane conditions inside the Adelanto ICE Processing Center, such as moldy towels, medical neglect, inadequate food, and dirty water.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019ve worked with many detained individuals who have been forced to go on hunger strikes to protest their conditions. The response from GEO Group and ICE is nearly always to punish them,\u201d said Sophia Wrench, an attorney with Public Counsel, a law firm involved in the lawsuit. \u201cThey lose \u2018privileges\u2019 like purchasing essential items from the commissary, lose access to communicating with family on the tablets, and sometimes are sent to solitary confinement. All for using what power they do have to try to get leadership to solve real ongoing problems that affect their lives,\u201d<\/p>\n

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Last week, state Attorney General Rob Bonta\u2019s office released their annual report on the state\u2019s immigration detention centers, which detailed findings of inadequate medical care, unsanitary conditions, and a lack of basic necessities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is cruel, inhumane, and unacceptable \u2014 and it is past time for the Trump Administration to do something about it,\u201d Bonta said.<\/p>\n

Hunger strikes inside the Adelanto ICE facilities aren\u2019t new, and neither are the reasons for the strikes.<\/p>\n

Some of the earliest hunger strikes since the opening of the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in 2011 can be dated back to 2015, according to Luis Nolasco, a senior policy advocate and organizer with the ACLU of SoCal, who\u2019s been looking into conditions inside the Adelanto ICE facilities since 2013.<\/p>\n

\u201cFood, medical access, treatment inside, lack of attorney access. These have just been prevalent issues since the beginning of the facility,\u201d Nolasco said. \u201cThey\u2019re built off of human suffering and as much as you try to fix it and put in the safeguards, the same problems continue to happen over and over.\u201d<\/p>\n

The most concerning method of retaliation against hunger strikers, said Nolasco, is being transferred to different facilities across the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn Desert View and Adelanto, we\u2019ve had documented stories of folks that were leading or coordinating hunger strikes that got transferred to, for example, the Northwestern detention center up in Seattle and some folks that got transferred over to Eloy [in Arizona] and some some other folks that got transferred to Louisiana. Again, as a result of their organizing hunger strikes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Retaliation remains a risk for those currently engaged in the ongoing hunger strike, said Esmeralda Santos, a lead organizer with the Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice.<\/p>\n

\u201cFolks are very scared to hunger strike, but they\u2019re at a moment now where they feel like they have no other choice but to hunger strike because they\u2019re not getting any of their needs met,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

As a result of one hunger strike several years ago, Nolasco recalls detainees getting new workout equipment.<\/p>\n

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