At Pennsylvania’s largest immigrant detention center, Moshannon Valley, conditions have become increasingly dangerous amid severe cuts to the Department of Homeland Security’s civil rights oversight office. A sweeping investigation into death, abuse, medical neglect, sexual harassment, and excessive solitary confinement has been jeopardized after the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL) was gutted in March, slashing its staff from 140 to just 25. 

Advocates, including RFK Human Rights attorney Sarah Decker, warn the cuts strip away the only federal watchdog protecting detained immigrants. Decker claims “more people will die in immigration detention.”

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