Inmates reported to their lawyers and family that they had been placed on lockdown and that the move to Victorville came suddenly. The inmates arrived at the high-desert location — which had received recent snowfall — in chains. They are being housed at a medium-security prison, one of several lockups at the Victorville site, which is also home to a high-security facility and a women’s prison. The facilities have a history of overcrowding; when immigration detainees were transferred there last summer, the employees’ union protested.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 28, 2019 03:45 UTC