Federal contractor was reportedly misleading about conditions in ICE facilities
Source: Think Progress
According to the Nakamoto Group, “detainees were satisfied with all conditions of their confinement.” An inspector general report says this isn't true.
Rebekah Entralgo
Jul 30, 2019, 2:27 pm
A company contracted by the federal government to conduct oversight on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities has reportedly been spending taxpayer dollars to draw up misleading reports about how migrants are treated in detention.
Officials at the company have refused to comment at length on the accusation, insisting they are providing impartial assessments of current conditions.
According to Kaiser Health News, the Nakamoto Group, which is tasked with overseeing conditions in migrant detention centers, described in its audits that detainees had “no substantive complaints” and that facilities that were “calm with no obvious indicators of high stress.” The Nakamoto inspections, however, stand in stark contrast to what the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) own inspector general has uncovered.
“None of the detainees expressed any concerns about their treatment or safety,” Nakamoto officials wrote in a March 2019 report on the Rio Grande Detention Center in Laredo, Texas. “Detainees were satisfied with all conditions of their confinement.”
Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/federal-contractor-was-reportedly-misleading-about-conditions-in-ice-facilities-f7dab2ebfa00/
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Oversight should never, never, ever be outsourced. That's nuts to begin with. 
