ICE Detention Is ‘Hell On Earth.’ Trump Has A Plan To Keep Even More People Locked Up.
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Immigration detention is not supposed to be punitive. But one man who spent 20 years in state prison told HuffPost the ICE detention facility he is currently in is worse.
After spending 20 years incarcerated in California state prisons, Gustavo Guevara Alarcon finally received parole. He had lined up housing and a job working with at-risk youth in the San Francisco Bay area.
“I had plans to return to society, be productive, just live the American dream,” he said in an interview in December.
But as he was released on July 11, 2024, he found Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents waiting for him. He ended up at California City Detention Facility, the state’s largest immigration detention center, which operates out of a crumbling, shuttered state prison.
Guevara Alarcon was horrified to find that conditions in immigration detention were far worse than anything he had experienced before. In prison, he was able to hug his loved ones during visitation and had access to rehabilitative programming, a job that allowed him to spend time out of his cell, and free sweatshirts and sweatpants.
In immigration detention, he is separated from visitors by a wall of glass, and he has spent most of his time locked in his frigid cell, forced to buy expensive sweats from the commissary to try to stay warm. There isn’t enough food, detainees are forced to share nail clippers and the building has repeatedly flooded. Guevara Alarcon said he has been denied access to medical care. Those who protest their conditions of confinement are punished with pepper spray and prolonged solitary confinement, a recognized form of torture.
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