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SAN FRANCISCO (CN) Less than a month after imposing strict Covid-19 safety measures on a privately run detention center in California, a federal judge on Thursday put similar restrictions in place to contain a major outbreak at a county jail that houses immigrant detainees north of Sacramento.
“We think it’s an important victory that will help protect the lives of ICE detainees at the Yuba County Jail,” said ACLU of Northern California attorney William Freeman, who represents the detainees, in a phone interview. “The measures that the court ordered are extensive, and they will have a positive effect on detainee health and safety.”
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0:08 – A class-action lawsuit alleges ICE is violating the constitutional rights of immigrant detainees in Mesa Verde and Yuba County Jail by exposing them to COVID – it’s called Zepeda-Rivas. A recent ruling in the case said ICE and GEO Group were “totally unprepared” for a severe COVID outbreak at Mesa Verde this summer. KPFA’s
Karin Argoud reports.
0:12 – Breaking over the weekend – Yuba County Jail is now experiencing a Covid-19 outbreak.