Jonathan Blitzer
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 14 Jul
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Doctors had to insert a catheter.
You know, my health situation is very delicate.
And all I ask is that you check in with my wife who has access to my medication at home.
And the first thing they said to him in response to that very straightforward expression of concern about his own medical situation was, yeah, we're not going to do that.
And so he's already beginning to become uneasy.
And then, you know, over the next couple of weeks, not only is he systematically denied his medication, even as he starts to feel increasingly sick, but he also sees other people in his tent being mistreated.
Someone, for example, who comes in in a wheelchair, who can't make it to a top bunk, but at the time that this man comes wheeling in, all the bottom bunks are occupied.
And someone just throws him a mattress and the guy sleeps on the floor because the guards don't bother to try to...
you know, improve the situation.
You know, Ray is seeing all of this stuff and is most alarmed by the level of chaos.
And that, I think, you know, above all for him, given his experience, was, I think, the indicator that something here was awry.
Well, I mean, we haven't even spoken about the conditions themselves, which, yes, I think, objectively speaking, are inhumane.
By the time Ray gets there, it's October of 2025.
It should be said about the facility before Ray gets there that a large number of detainees who were held at Camp East Montana were
were being held there while construction was going on at the facility itself.
And so, you know, in August, September, there are people, and we have a, thanks to the American Civil Liberties Union, which took a bunch of declarations early on, we have testimony from detainees who describe essentially
There being dust coming into the tents, people coughing, people not being able to breathe, people getting sick, the water working sporadically, toilet and sewage water leaking into the living area.
You know, the toilets and the eating and sleeping area are all in a small confined space inside these tents.
And so, you know, leaks from the bathroom are seeping into where detainees are eating and sleeping.
In the early days, the...
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