Several immigration detention facilities haven’t been inspected in a year — and more UCLA media

CBS News reported on growing concerns about conditions in immigration detention facilities, discovering in an analysis that 15 of the 45 facilities with populations of at least 500 were not inspected in the last year. “A lot of facilities have deficiencies, and it takes frequent reassessments to ensure that those deficiencies are being addressed,” said Annette Dekker, an assistant professor at UCLA’s medical school who has studied health outcomes among immigration detainees and co-authored a 2024 paper calling for inspection reforms. Read more about UCLA in CNN, the Associated Press, ScienceDa