California investigators asked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for a two-week site visit and interviews with staff and detainees at Adelanto ICE Processing Center.
They got several hours and no interviews.
Adelanto is a privately run detention facility run by GEO GROUP that was also named in a scathing report last year by the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General.
GEO GROUP's Adelanto prison was just one of many private and public detention facilities faulted in a report released Tuesday by the state Department of Justice for everything from inadequate medical care to significant barriers to legal representation.