The unrest has often come after medicalcare complaints. (Pecos Enterprise. Smokey Briggs AP) Repeated federal audits and reports have found these facilities to be in crisis. Prison medical care is notoriously bad. but for years. immigrant- and prisonerrights advocates have sounded the alarm about these sites in particular. describing them as separate and unequal. segregated on the basis of citizenship. "These prisons operate without the same systems of accountability as regular Bureau of Prisons facilities. and prisoners suffer." said Carl Takei. an ACLU attorney who coauthored a 2014 report documenting the subpar conditions. Yet the full scale of the medical neglect at these immigrantonly contract prisons has remained opaqueuntil now. After two years of negotiations with the BOP in and out of federal court over an openrecords request. I obtained more than 9.000 pages of medical records that contractors submitted to the BOP.
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