Jonathan Blitzer
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Well, you know, I think...
Over the course of my reporting on this, there was more and more attention paid to the conditions there.
And there was some great reporting from other outlets, The Washington Post above all, really, documenting how, for example, in the first 60 days of this facility's existence, there were 50 code violations related to all of the mismanagement that we've gotten into.
And then there was a period in between December of 2025 and January of 2026 where
when in a span of, you know, maybe 40-plus days, there were three deaths at Camp East Montana.
And I think there was one of those three deaths, which ICE claimed initially had been a suicide or kind of an aborted suicide, caused, I think, the most national attention because the El Paso County medical examiner revealed in an autopsy that the cause of death had been...
Homicide had been, you know, chest compression and, you know, asphyxiation.
Yeah, he had a bunch of different medical conditions.
You know, first of all, he had asthma and needed an inhaler.
But he also suffered from bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety.
So he also took medication for that.
And we now know that he was being denied his medicine regularly.
across all of these different conditions.
And I should just say, too, that in September of 2025, there were so many complaints that were emerging about the conditions at Camp East Montana that two government bodies sent officials to conduct a site visit and see for themselves what was going on.
One of them came from the Government Accountability Office, and the other came from ICE itself.
And I spoke to one of the officials who visited the facility back in September to conduct this site visit.
And this official said to me that when they came back, their kind of number one warning that they tried to relay up the chain was someone is going to die here.
Someone is going to commit suicide here.
None of the cells that are meant to hold people who are at risk of committing suicide or who have threatened to commit suicide are sort of proofed against their doing so.
And then you have, you fast forward a couple of months to the case of Gerardo de los Campos, who, you know, again, has been complaining consistently about how they've denied him his psychiatric medication.
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