Some men said for days they weren’t allowed to make phone calls to inform their families and attorneys where they were.

A Coast Guard plane carrying several dozen people in immigration custody landed in Alaska in early June. Several of the men said that they didn’t have bathroom access on the plane — or even seats. They flew shackled in the cargo area of the plane. They’d been transferred from the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, Washington, to the Anchorage Correctional Complex…

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