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Charles Leo Daniel was identified as the man found at an ICE facility in Tacoma. It’s believed he was held in solitary confinement, possibly close to 4 years.
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Police said a 61-year-old man was found unresponsive on Thursday at the ICE facility in Tacoma.
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The Department of Labor and Industries has sued GEO Group because it has not allowed officials to inspect the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma.
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The Washington state Department of Health said it's tried to enter the ICE facility in Tacoma twice to inspect it but has been turned away.
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Activists with the group La Resistencia say there’s been a hunger strike at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility in Tacoma for nearly a month.
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Detainees at the Northwest Detention Center started a hunger strike 18 days go, protesting conditions there and demanding that they be released or deported.
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Almost every day, people from all over the world try to find their footing after being released from the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma. An RV parked outside the immigration detention center and a hospitality house in south Tacoma managed by AIDNW give them a place to go.
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University researchers found detention staff threw balls of pepper spray and used other means of force against detainees, including those with mental illness. They found such incidents occurred on average once a month.
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It’s been more than two years since families and friends have been able to visit loved ones in person at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Tacoma. ICE suspended visitations at all detention facilities in early 2020 and has kept that policy in place. Now, national and local immigrant rights groups have started to push back after visitations at federal and state prisons have largely resumed.
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Ever since GEO Group, the private prison company that runs the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center in Tacoma, suspended its detainee worker program last month, some immigrants have been speaking out about conditions deteriorating.