BREAKING🚨 A gas leak sickened men inside one of the country's largest immigration jails, and when they reported headaches and gas-inhalation symptoms, they were REFUSED medical care. Men held at the Adams County detention center in Natchez were pushed outside into the afternoon sun for hours last Saturday after a gas leak, and when they came back in it still smelled of gas, according to the wife of one detainee. Some of the men developed headaches and other symptoms of inhaled gas. They were never told where the leak came from, how it was resolved, or whether it was resolved at all. When they complained, she said, they were denied medical care. The facility has started putting three men in cells designed for two. The power went out Monday. Lighting came back Tuesday. Air conditioning did not return until late Wednesday. Men were either shut outside with no shade or locked in their cells through meal times, she said. "There's generators that run the defenses and things to make sure no one can escape, but they were without air conditioning for two days, and in Mississippi it's very hot right now," said the wife, a US citizen whose name is being withheld because her husband fears retaliation. Staff also took the tablet devices away. "They didn't give them the tablet devices during that time because they didn't want them notifying loved ones," she said. "If they feel anyone's organizing anything they'll send them to solitary." Her husband has an active asylum application and no criminal record. ICE arrested him in January at a routine appointment. Only 9% of the more than 2,000 men at Adams have any criminal record. CoreCivic, the private company that runs the jail, says the account is "bad information," that no staff member detected gas, and that "at no point" was air conditioning interrupted. In May, ICE's own detention oversight inspectors found 23 violations of use-of-force and restraint standards there and downgraded the facility's rating from superior to acceptable/adequate. CoreCivic reported $2.2bn in revenue, which chief executive Patrick Swindle credited to "the trust of our government partners." If you appreciate my posts, it would mean the world if you followed my page. Thank you for being here.

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More than 140 immigrants at the for-profit ICE jail in Tacoma have refused all food since August 11 to demand edible meals and medical care. Several with untreated broken bones are among them.

The hunger strike at the Northwest Detention Center, run for profit by the GEO Group, followed a night when more than 70 people went nearly 24 hours with nothing to eat. By midnight on August 12, according to the immigrant-led group La Resistencia, over 140 people still had not been given dinner. When food does arrive, detainees have described it as being like dog food.

"Bad food, there's no medicine. It's nearly a month with pain in my molars, and they won't help me," one man said. Another stepped toward the camera during a video call, said he was originally from Laos, and said: "All we need is just food. We want food!" A man from Iran said people arrive with no money for the commissary, then added, "Please get us out of here. I have a 10-month-old that depends on me."

Several detainees with broken or dislocated bones have reportedly gone without treatment. The strikers are also demanding care for sick people inside, particularly those with diabetes. Type 1 diabetics can die within 24 to 72 hours without insulin.

This is the 18th hunger strike this year at that one facility. La Resistencia posted video of men pleading to be fed and given medicine while GEO employees refused them.

While that was happening inside, GEO founder and CEO George Zoley was on an investor call describing the company's coming talks to sell detention facilities to ICE as a "significant liquidity and shareholder value-enhancing event" for the company. ICE bought a comparable California facility for nearly $500 million this month. Zoley has said federal ownership would be a way to avoid state oversight. Washington health inspectors have been blocked from entering the Tacoma facility again and again, even after winning in federal court.

Congresswoman Emily Randall, whose district includes the jail, said the plan is about making CEOs like Zoley richer. "