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#detention conditions

The physical conditions and treatment standards in detention facilities. Incidents document overcrowding, inadequate medical care, unsanitary conditions, temperature extremes, and other conditions constituting cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment.

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Grade 3 of 5: Serious Rights Violation

'Camp 57': ICE Detainees Held in a Former Disciplinary Unit Inside Angola Prison (September 2025–)

DHS reopened a disused punitive unit inside the largest maximum-security prison in the US to hold civil immigration detainees, and said the prison's fearsome reputation was the point. One former detainee's account describes harsh conditions, which ICE denies; that detainee was deported in breach of a court order. ACLU Louisiana is challenging detentions there in court.