Otay Mesa Detention Resistance helped ICE detainees communicate with the outside world as a COVID-19 outbreak spread inside.
Detainees at Otay Mesa Detention Center had complained of not having protective gear such as masks and not having adequate soap as precautions during the COVID-19 pandemic. New surgical masks arrived Friday, but they initially came with conditions -- a contract, one detainee says.The phone team for Otay Mesa Detention Resistance usually receives calls all day long from people held at the facility, Malo said, but that stopped Wednesday.
In April, the organization helped detainees tell their side of what happened after CoreCivic told them tothat released the company from liability in exchange for masks. Women in one of the housing units said they were threatened with pepper spray, and some said they were sprayed after they expressed frustration at having to sign contracts to get masks, when COVID-19 was already spreading at the facility.CoreCivic has maintained that no force was used that day. The office of Sen.
More than 200 detainees and inmates at the facility had tested positive for the coronavirus through the end of May, according to facility documents obtained by the San Diego Union-Tribune. Additionally, 29 CoreCivic employees and nine medical staffers tested positive.Advertisement Otay Mesa Detention Resistance said it plans to hold a demonstration Tuesday evening outside of the facility.This article was updated with information from Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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