CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge expressed optimism Friday at the government's progress in making required changes to a Chicago-area federal immigration facility with alleged “inhumane” conditions .

Many of the changes included regular cleanings, ordering bedding and making drinking water and soap more readily available for people held in the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in the west Chicago suburb of Broadview .

U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman ordered the changes Wednesday after several hours of emotional testimony from detainees about overflowing toilets, crowded cells, no beds and water that “tasted like sewer." Gettleman called the alleged conditions “unnecessarily cruel."

The testimony offered rare public accounts about the conditions at a facility

See Full Page