Trump Administration Hit with New Lawsuit Over ICE Detainees Sent to Louisiana Prison

The American Civil Liberties Union sued the Trump administration Monday, accusing it of unlawfully imprisoning immigration detainees at the former slave plantation and maximum-security prison known as Angola in Louisiana.

The lawsuit claims detainees are being punished twice for crimes they already served time for, in violation of the Constitution’s Double Jeopardy clause. It also alleges the government intentionally placed immigrants in “inhumane” conditions, including foul water and lack of basic necessities, as part of what it calls an anti-immigrant campaign.

Filed in federal court in Baton Rouge, the lawsuit seeks the release of several detainees and challenges the administration’s use of the prison to house people it labels the “worst of the worst.”

This article includes reporting by the Associated Press.

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