Troubled ICE Medical Provider Remains at Camp East Montana Despite Outcry

May 19, 2026

Troubled ICE Medical Provider Remains at Camp East Montana Despite Outcry

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An illustration in faded green, red, and purple. Above, it shows a group of people in a room with a medical cross visible on the wall. The people rake dollar bills into massive piles around a hole in the floor. Below, a few dollar bills fall down the hole, which illuminates suffering people in detention.

(Illustration: Leslie Garvey / POGO)

Troubled ICE Medical Provider Remains at Camp East Montana Despite Outcry

In March, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) fired the contractor running Camp East Montana, the nation’s largest ICE detention facility, amid deaths, a measles outbreak, and allegations of substandard medical care. Quietly, the facility kept on using the same medical provider.

“Putting [Loyal Source Government Services] in Camp East Montana is a train wreck,” said Charles Tiefer, a federal government contracting expert and law professor at the University of Baltimore. “You are combining a contractor with a very dubious record and a facility that is in shambles.”

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