Adelanto is a former state prison about 85 miles northeast of Los Angeles that began operating as an ICE detention center in 2011. In total, California facilities can hold nearly 7,200 detainees.

Adelanto, California: a dusty desert city nestled ... and the area’s four area jails and prisons did little to reverse that grim profile. The town’s leaders were even talking about ceding ...

If you take Interstate 15 about two hours north from Los Angeles, heading into the high desert of San Bernardino County, you’ll reach a for-profit federal detention facility called the ...

In a ruling Friday, U.S. District Judge Terry Hatter Jr. of the Central District of California wrote that “the ban on new detainee intakes at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center ...