April 13, 2020
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement must provide detainees with free, private phone service so they can contact their attorneys, which is of crucial importance during the coronavirus pandemic, when the detainees' lives are at risk, a California federal judge has ruled.
April 02, 2020
A putative class of federal immigration detainees suing the government over prison-like conditions and attorney access complained to a California federal judge at a hearing Thursday that COVID-19 protocols are further restricting access to attorneys — policies the judge called unclear.
October 25, 2019
The U.S. government and a private prison contractor must face a proposed class action accusing them of detaining immigrants in prisonlike conditions while limiting access to lawyers after a California federal judge determined that the suit does not seek a review of removal orders.