“...having English-only policies in the jails.”
That’s a federal crime now? Yeesh!
Well it could be, if language barriers imposed by mere decree mean it is impossible for Spanish speakers to alert staff to genuine problems. If a prisoner’s health goes south due to a local jailer’s negligence, it’s now a federal civil rights violation.
It galls that 99% of these problems are the illegales, but a domestic citizen or two may also be affected.