what is this area here. infractions? the most common. most common infection that occurred is fighting. when in here there was a movement where they have the ability to roam around the area, phones for them to use, books for them to use, individuals play x box and watch movies. this is the recreation area. we are in the recreation area and we offer detainees to or 3 hours a day if not more. in terms of the characterization out there, a big national debate, what do you want people to know? when these individuals are detained we give them the care they need, we give them what they can to keep individuals safe.
we thing we do offer is phone calls and attorneys. reporter: what is this area here? we aor currently in the special housing unit here. this area individuals that are detained here, individuals that have committed infractions. reporter: is that like fighting? the most common is in fighting. while they are here they have open movement. they have the ability to roam around. we have phone calls, phones for them to use. we have books for them to use. individuals are able to play x box and watch movies. reporter: they re playing soccer here. right now we re in the recreation yard that we offer the detainees, two to three hours a day, if not more. reporter: in terms of the characterizations out there, there s a big national debate. what do you want people to know? okay. when these individuals are detained here, we are giving them care and custody they need.
area here. we have phone calls, phones for them to use. we have book for them to use and individuals play xbox and watch movies. this is recreation yard. right now we re in the recreation yard, and we offer the detainees anywhere from two to three hours day if not more depending on availability. in terms of the characterizes out there there s a big national debate but what do you want people to know? when these individuals are detain ad here we re giving them care and custody they to do everything to keep individuals safe while they re detained here. i.c.e. has about 53,000 individuals in their custody across the country. the facility here at adelanto is one of the largest of about 31 across the country. the population here about 60% of them have criminal records were convicted of a crime before they were brought here we spoke to one of the detainees inside that was willing to speak with us it
area, individuals that committed infractions. the most common in custody. while they are in here they have the ability to go around the area. we have phone calls, phone for them to use, books to use, individuals play x box. you are playing soccer in the recreation area. we offer 2 or 3 hours a day if not more. in terms of the characterization, a big national debate. when these individuals we give them the care they need, doing everything we can to keep the individuals safe. all the detainees are adults,
open movement. they have the ability to roam around the area here. we have phones for them to use, we have books for them to use. individuals are able to play xbox and watch movies. they are playing soccer and this is the recreation yard? we re in the recreation yard and we offer the detainees two to three hours a day if not more depending on availability. in terms of characterizations out there. a big national debate. what do you want people to know? i want people to know when the individuals are detained we re giving them the care and custody they need and to everything we can to keep the individuals safe while detained here. important note only adults here, no children being held. many of the detainees we talked to said they found conditions were very good. director jiles hopes that more lawmakers that are critical of such facilities will come and see for themselves. alicia: great to see an inside look there. thank you griff jenkins in california.