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L.A. immigrant who spent six months in detention describes harsh conditions at Adelanto facility

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From his cell at the Adelanto immigration detention facility on July 11, 2017, Romulo Avelica Gonzalez scrawled out a journal entry on lined notebook paper.

“Another person hanged himself,” he wrote in Spanish. “Lost asylum.”

It was one of five suicide attempts over the course of eight months at…