​AG Brown filed a federal lawsuit against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), seeking their compliance with the Attorney General’s administrative subpoena for records related to reported dangerous, inhumane, and unlawful conditions in ICE “hold rooms” at the George H. Fallon Federal Building in the city of Baltimore. The lawsuit arises out of the Office of the Attorney General’s (OAG) Civil Rights Division and Federal Accountability Unit’s joint investigation into whether ICE has engaged in a pattern or practice of civil rights violations against individuals detained at the Baltimore facility.

“The conditions inside the Baltimore holding cells have been dangerous, inhumane, and unlawful — and ICE and DHS have done everything in their power to keep us from finding out just how bad they are. The agencies have stonewalled our investigation while people in their custody are denied critical medical care and forced to sleep in cold cement cells and live in their own excrement. We’re taking ICE and DHS to court to expose the full scope and impact of their lawless behavior.” – AG Brown