One woman whose brother was detained says that last summer, her mother was rejected from visiting because she was wearing a postpartum belly wrap after suffering a miscarriage. Another teenage girl said that she was rejected from visiting for wearing a knee-length dress that was appropriate for school but apparently not Delaney—which only allows for skirts and dresses that extend to the knee while seated. Another one of the detainees’ wives said she and her children have been turned away more than 10 times for violating supposed dress codes, on one occasion being rejected because the leggings her four-year-old daughter was wearing were—to quote the guard in charge—too “provocative.” “How is that provocative if she’s only four years old?” she said. How, indeed.

Delaney Hall has been the subject of attention since opening last May, being one of the various private prisons that’s been tied with a seemingly never-ending list of controversies, much of which have caused detainees to launch a hunger strike—which just entered its third week. The strike began in May, shortly after detainees sent out an “SOS” letter about the conditions inside Delaney’s walls, detailing reports of abuse, expired and inedible food, and inadequate health care. In February as well, a 41-year-old detainee entered the facility and died just five hours later, with causes still unknown.