EL PASO, Texas (KTSM) — The Camp East Montana Detention Facility at Fort Bliss violated at least 60 federal standards, including failing to properly treat some of the detainees’ medical conditions and not providing adequate food, according to a report by the Washington Post.
The report says the first detainees arrived to an “active construction site” and were held at the unfinished facility where they were subjected to conditions that violated at least 60 federal standards for immigrant detention.
The facility failed to “properly monitor and treat some detainees’ medical conditions, lacked basic procedures for keeping guards and detainees safe, and for weeks did not provide many of them a way to contact lawyers, learn about their cases or file complaints,” according to the report…