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WA health department sues over denied entry to Tacoma ICE facility (www.seattletimes.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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The Washington State Department of Health says it has not been able to investigate what could be a “full-blown public health crisis” at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Tacoma.

In a legal challenge filed July 30 against the private contractor that runs the facility, health inspectors say they were denied access to inspect living conditions. Since April 2023, the department said it has received more than 700 health complaints from the undocumented people incarcerated at the facility. Among them are disturbing reports that employees failed to address life-threatening medical conditions, and served dirty food and water.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This article from January has more detail in it.

The idea that The Department of Labor and Standards can show up with a Court Order and be denied entry is mind boggling.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

How is refusing to obey a court order signed by a judge not the crime of Contempt of Court?!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I'm sure that it is but I don't know how a County Court goes about enforcing that against a Federal facility. That's why it so rare to see this happen, the system only works if everyone plays along. I dunno.