Seven detainees filed a class-action lawsuit against the Trump administration on November 12, 2025, alleging severe medical neglect, punitive conditions, and inadequate disability accommodations at California City Detention Facility. The lawsuit, supported by the ACLU and other organizations, describes denial of medical care, excessive solitary confinement, lack of disability accommodations, denial of legal access, sewage backup, insect infestations, frigid temperatures, and insufficient clothing and food. The facility, reopened in 2025 by for-profit company CoreCivic at a former state prison in the Mojave Desert, can hold up to 2,560 people and has faced intense criticism since opening, with detainees staging sit-ins and hunger strikes, including one involving over 100 people in mid-September.