Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Victorville prison staffers protest the budget cuts they say are leading to unsafe conditions at the desert complex, where hundreds of migrants have been detained. “You’re going to get more suicide attempts and suicides,” one medical staffer told HuffPost. “We’re not able to give proper evaluations on time,” another medical staffer told HuffPost, saying that medical care is essentially triaged to emergencies. Inadequate medical staffing has long been a problem for the BOP, as was highlighted in a 2016 inspector general’s report. “If they had sufficient medical staff, then why did you have to send temporary duty there?

Source: Huffington Post August 02, 2018 03:22 UTC