“The US government must provide detainees at a California immigration detention center with adequate medical care, access to attorneys, and “temperature-appropriate clothing and blankets”, a federal judge has ruled. The order came on Tuesday in response to a lawsuit filed by seven people detained at the California City detention facility in November, alleging they had been denied essential medications, sufficient food and sanitary housing conditions.

“Residents at the facility had previously described the center as a “torture chamber” and “hell on earth”

“”Most of the people held in California City have no criminal record whatsoever, and yet the government treats them worse than the highest-security criminals,” said Cody Harris, a partner at Keker, Van Nest & Peters, the law firm representing the plaintiffs alongside the Prison Law Office and the ACLU National Prison Project.”

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[–] 2 points 9 months ago

Next they'll be ordered to provide them with valuable food and water that could be going towards our nation's hardworking, law-abiding citizens. Disgusting.

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    [–] 33 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    The constitution is supposed to guarantee these things. That a court was required to order it? Fuck absolutely everything about this.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    So you see: Don't believe in the system
    to legalize you or give you your freedom
    You want rights? Ask ’em—they’ll read ’em
    But every flower got a right to be bloomin’
    Stay human

    — Michael Franti & Spearhead (2001)

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago

    Yes, but actually no.

    The bill of rights, i.e. first set of ammendments, are supposed to guarantee it. The framing of the original document did not include anything about our rights. Like - nothing at all what so fucking ever. Which kinda explains why those rights have been trampled all over by our own government so many times - they were an afterthought to market the main document to the masses.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Is breathable air also necessitated? Is there a minimum or maximum atmospheric pressure allowed in detention areas? Just how specific do the laws and orders need to be to prevent malicious compliance bullshit?

    "You never said the blankets couldn't be made of steel wool and soaked in lemon juice."
    "Temperature-appropriate clothing, sure - but you didn't specify appropriate for the local climate and not somewhere thousands of miles away."
    "The medication supply was adequate, it sufficed for the rest of their life!"

    There ain't no rule that says a concentration camp can't be made entirely of asbestos coated lead!

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    When "bullet time" was blowing up after the Matrix was released I was expecting to see some references to the music video I saw on MTV that preceded it; but I don't think I ever did. In 2014 (based on file timestamps) I randomly remembered the video and finally tracked it down: Meat Beat Manifesto - Helter Skelter.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Ah, that's a way cooler reference in the bullet time sequence; I never saw that video before, or at least not before The Matrix. When The Matrix came out, I think my only point of reference was The Gap commercials, LOL.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago

    Human decency, but only under court order, and only if ICE chooses to comply.

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  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    So, they are being made to follow the law, right?

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    And? You think ice will care about judge orders?

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    I'm sure they'll get right on that, given how law-abiding they are.

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  • You judge a society by how it treats its prisoners.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    "Give them the basics?! What, are you a commie?!??"

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  • So after ICE completely ignore the law (as is their tradition), what punishments are going to be visited upon the relevant ICEholes? A strongly-worded letter? Slap on the wrist with a wet lettuce leaf? Riot police storming the facility and beating the rogue agency staff into submission before arresting them?

    (That last one was, of course, nothing more than a little fantabulism).

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