“They Treat Us Like Dogs”: Detainees at South Louisiana ICE Facility Risk Retaliation to Expose Solitary Confinement and Abuse
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A smuggled video out of the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Basile, Louisiana, has provided a frantic, real-time window into the desperation and retaliation faced by detained women. Recorded hastily on a facility tablet before guards returned, the footage shows a group of detainees protesting the sudden removal of a fellow woman, Dana, into solitary confinement after she spoke out about the center’s conditions.
The South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Basile has become the flashpoint of a mounting human rights crisis. In the video, the women explain they are staging a mutiny in the facility’s “Delta Bravo” unit, actively refusing to let guards count them as they demand answers regarding Dana’s safety. According to the detainees, Dana was taken away and locked in the Special Management Unit (SMU) as direct retaliation for filming a previous public complaint. The fear for her well-being is palpable; the women note that facility supervisors sprinted toward the SMU during the incident, leaving the rest of the unit completely in the dark about what was happening to her behind closed doors.