Original Date Announced

DHS Office of Inspector General identifies a number of serious issues at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center that violate ICE’s 2011 Performance-Based National Detention Standards and pose significant health and safety risks, including nooses in detainee cells, improper and overly restrictive segregation, and untimely and inadequate detainee medical care. [ID #358]

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ICE Revises Its Standards for Some Detention Facilities

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recently published an update to its National Detention Standards (NDS), which govern the treatment of people held in facilities that rent some of their beds to ICE, often city or county jails. The new standards may weaken some protections for up to 20% of ICE’s detained population.

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Roman v. Wolf - Preliminary Injunction

A federal district court granted a preliminary injunction requiring that Adelanto not accept any new detainees, that its population be reduced to allow for social distancing, and that it continue to shrink below the number required for minimal social distancing by May 4, 2020.

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Roman v. Wolf- Modified Preliminary Injunction

A federal district court issues a modified preliminary injunction ordering the government to submit a population reduction plan by October 5, 2020. This followed a Ninth Circuit opinion (http://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2020/10/13/20-55436.pdf) that followed an urgent order, responding to virus spread, one week after oral argument on September 15, 2020.

**Link to case here. See litigation note above**

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Roman v. Wolf - Population Reduction Order

The government failed to submit a population reduction plan to the district court on October 5 as ordered. The court issued an order requiring the government to reduce the Adelanto population to 475 starting on October 19, 2020.

**Link to case here. See litigation note above**

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Roman v. Wolf - Amended Population Reduction Order

On January 11, 2021, Judge Hatter amended the population reduction order in Roman v. Wolf and provided a revised list for determining which detained individuals should be released in order to reduce the population of the Adelanto ICE Processing Center to no more than 475 individuals.

**Link to case here. See litigation note above**

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2026.01.26 Class Action Complaint - L.T. v. ICE

A group of detained noncitizens filed a putative class action on behalf of all detainees at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center, a for-profit detention complex in California's Mojave Desert. They allege severe violations of due process, disability discrimination, and arbitrary, capricious and unlawful agency action.

The complaint outlines rampant abuse and inhumane conditions, including unsanitary, moldy living quarters, contagious-disease outbreaks, spoiled food, unclean water, and a "pervasive lack of medical treatment" and disability accommodations. It alleges untreated medical and mobility issues, including a spinal tumor, epilepsy, seizures, a staph infection, and cardiac arrhythmia, noting that Adelanto "has long been the subject of investigation and condemnation for its unsafe conditions," and that at least two detainees have died in custody since it reopened in June 2025.

Plaintiffs seek declaratory and injunctive relief to enjoin the federal government from violating plaintiffs' rights and retaliating against them for filing the lawsuit. L.T. v. ICE, No. 5:26-cv-00322 (C.D. Cal.).

**Link to case here. See litigation note above**

For subsequent developments in this litigation, please see this Trump 2.0 entry.