Abuse in Adelanto: An Investigation into a California Town’s Immigration Jail

November 2015
Co-author: 
Community Initiatives for Visiting Immigrants in Confinement (CIVIC)

This report details how the rural town of Adelanto relied on the prison industrial complex to revitalize their community only to realize that an influx of prisons did not bring economic growth. The report also delves into the abuses and violations that CIVIC visitation volunteers and detention monitoring tours have documented from speaking with detained individuals at the Adelanto Detention Center.