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Such businesses had often subjected migrants to "squalid conditions and illegal working hours" as well as below-minimum wages.

After she documented the squalid conditions at Nidorf, local officials again allegedly tried to go over her head and voice frustrations, said Sharony.

But despite entering into a settlement with the county to mandate reform, the California attorney general’s office has done little to force change as kids remain in squalid and dangerous conditions.

It is considered “one of the most dangerous prisons in the Western Hemisphere” with “some of the most inhumane and squalid conditions known in any carceral system.”

The state’s regional jails have come under scrutiny for squalid conditions, excessive use of force and record numbers of deaths.