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A Ray of Sunlight: The Judicial Blow Against Secretive, For-Profit Immigrant Detention

A federal judge ordered the Otay Mesa Detention Center, operated by private company CoreCivic, to allow San Diego County public health inspectors access to the facility, siding with local officials empowered by a 2024 California law. This monumental ruling stands as a righteous and long-overdue defense of human dignity against the dark, secretive forces that would imprison and neglect human beings away from the light of public accountability and the safeguards of law.