On Friday morning, California Attorney General Rob Bonta revealed the results of a new report on conditions inside immigration detention facilities, which he described as “cruel, inhumane, and unacceptable.”
Bonta said the California Department of Justice report was compiled by visiting seven detention centers operating in California in 2025 pursuant to contracts with ICE, including the recently-opened California City Detention Facility.
Active immigration detention facilities in CA:
Adelanto ICE Processing Center – operated by The GEO Group, Inc. in Adelanto
Desert View Annex – operated by GEO Group in Adelanto
Golden State Annex – operated by GEO Group in McFarland
Mesa Verde ICE Processing Facility – operated by GEO Group in Bakersfield
Imperial Regional Detention Facility – operated by Management & Training Corporation in Calexico
Otay Mesa Detention Center – operated by CoreCivic in San Diego
California City Detention Facility – operated by CoreCivic in California City
* While finalizing the report, the DOJ says it became aware that an eighth facility, Central Valley Annex, began to receive ICE detainees in April 2026.
Staff members and nearly 200 detainees were interviewed.
The report found a 162 percent surge in the number of detainees since the previous report in 2024. It also found many detainees lacked enough food, proper clothing and had poor access to clean drinking water and medical care.
There were six deaths of detainees between Sept. 2025 and March 2026, according to the report.
The biggest takeaway from the report, Bonta says, is that conditions are getting worse, and he said they were already substandard.
In this Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2019, photo shows chain-link fence and razor wire surrounding the exercise fields at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in Adelanto, Calif. The facility is a privately operated immigration detention center run by the GEO Group, which can house up to about 1900 total immigrant detainees, both male and female.(AP Photo/Chris Carlson)
“This has been driven, in large part, by the Trump administration’s aggressive and inhumane mass deportation campaign, including its refusal to release detainees on bond, so we have more detainees in the facilities and we’re seeing all sorts of unacceptable, cruel and inhumane conditions as a result,” Bonta said.
This is the fifth report on detention centers by the California Department of Justice.
KTLA has reached out to the Department of Homeland Security for a statement on the report but has not yet received a response as of Friday afternoon.
You can read the full report here.
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