Jonathan Blitzer

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342 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 14 Jul

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Outside recreation area isn't set up yet, so people aren't allowed outside at all.

For weeks.

For weeks on end.

The phone booths or visitation booths where people are supposed to be able to meet with lawyers and family members aren't.

aren't set up.

And so people are completely cut off from the outside world.

The tablets that detainees are meant to use to communicate with lawyers and family members don't work.

So people are essentially being held kind of incommunicado in conditions that are increasingly alarming.

Medical care as a general matter doesn't exist.

One after another person described to me essentially that

Anytime you had any sort of physical problem, if you complained loudly about it, they'd give you Advil.

But that was the extent of it.

No one got seen by a doctor.

People with medical conditions who needed medication with chronic conditions were essentially ignored.

There was infrequent cleaning of the tents themselves.

And so a lot of the detainees had to do it themselves, sometimes with their own clothes.

So there's testimony from detainees who are wiping up

you know, sort of fetid bathroom water with their own underwear.

I mean, every manner of horror, and we can get into this, but essentially...

These problems kind of evolve or devolve, depending on how you look at it, over the course of several months.

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