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Attempted Suicides, Fights, Pain: 911 Calls Reveal Misery at ICE's Largest Detention Facility
More than 130 daily 911 calls reveal emergencies including suicide attempts, seizures, and COVID amid overcrowding and alleged neglect at ICE’s largest detention facility.
- AP obtained more than 100 911 call recordings showing routine medical and mental-health emergencies at Camp East Montana, where about 3,000 people live daily in overcrowded, unsanitary conditions.
- Hastily constructed last summer, the camp was built after a contract worth up to $1.3 billion was awarded to Acquisition Logistics LLC, critics say the contractor and subcontractors are failing to deliver services.
- AP's review of about 130 911 calls found staff made nearly one call per day, and at least 20 emergencies were seizures, including some with serious head trauma, while detainees reported missed medications.
- Visitor restrictions and agency denials followed reporting that the center will be closed to visitors until at least March 19 due to a measles outbreak, while DHS and ICE say normal operations continue and reject some claims.
- The Washington Post reported that a required ICE inspection found violations of at least 60 federal standards at Camp East Montana, but the inspection results remain unreleased and the facility has not been publicly inspected, ICE says.
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Attempted suicides, fights, pain: 911 calls reveal misery at ICE's largest detention facility
The calls to 911 poured in from staff at Camp East Montana, the nation's largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility, in its first months of operation in El Paso, Texas.
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The Oakland Press‘Worse than a prison’: 911 calls, interviews reveal problems at ICE’s largest detention camp
EL PASO, Texas — Serious medical and mental health emergencies have been routine at the nation’s largest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility since its opening, according to records obtained by The Associated Press. Data and recordings from more than a hundred 911 calls at Camp East Montana in El Paso, Texas, along with interviews and court filings, offer a disturbing portrait of overcrowding, medical neglect, malnutrition…
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