Dirty drinking water.

Poor hygiene to physical assaults are only a few of the report of issues at the privately run immigration detention center here in Tacoma.

The center is run by a private company with a federal contract, making oversight a legal question that's still being hashed out in the courts.

Multimedia Journalist Jaelynn Grisso has more on what groups such as the University of Washington's Center for Human Rights have learned about the conditions within the facility.

- The reported issues at the Northwest ICE Processing Center run the gamut from unsanitary - think uncooked food and unwashed clothes - to unsafe or life threatening.

State officials have tried to inspect the facility to verify these claims multiple times, often being turned away.

In fact, the Washington attorney general filed a lawsuit against GEO Group, the private company running the facility, for exactly that reason.

The lawsuit filing say the state has received 3,500 complaints.

Community advocacy groups have also documented delays for medical attention and alleged overuse of solitary confinement.

In 2024 alone, two detainees died while in custody.

Jose Manuel Sanchez-Castro passed in late October.

His cause of death was determined to be an ulcer, but a 911 call obtained by the University of Washington Center for Human Rights revealed he was going through fentanyl withdrawal.

Earlier in the year, Charles Leo Daniel died while in solitary confinement, With only two days in the general population, the 61-year-old man was held in solitary confinement for nearly four years.

GEO Group and ICE did not return requests for comment.

Next time, we'll dig into the facility's new contract and what it means for oversight.

I'm Paris Jackson.

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