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A record number of people are being detained by immigration and customs enforcement.

Some of those detainees described conditions inside

some detention centers as cruel and inhumane. Last month, 60,000 people were detained by ICE,

breaking a record set by the previous Trump administration. A Los Angeles Times analysis of

public data found that more than a third of detainees have spent time in a dedicated facility

that is over capacity. And now, county jails and ICE-filled offices are being used to fill those gaps.

Jails held about 10 percent of all detainees, or 7,100 people on average each day in July,

according to the prison policy initiative. In downtown Los Angeles, some people arrested by ICE were held in the basement below a federal building known as B-18.

In June, ABC 7 in L.A. spoke to family members outside those offices.

Here's what one man told reporter Annabel Munoz about the conditions his wife experienced in that field

office.

The basement is cold, he said, adding there are no beds, not enough food, and that people are

sleeping standing because there isn't enough space.

During one call in the middle of the night, he says he heard women screaming.

His wife told him a woman fell to the ground and began foaming at the mouth.

She believes from dehydration.

And it's not just L.A.

An ice-filled office in Chantilly, Virginia has become a makeshift holding facility

as immigration-related arrests well from President Trump's federal law enforcement crackdown

in D.C. So what fallout is the Trump administration's immigration crackdown having on

ICE detention centers and what legal options do detainees have? We get into it after the break.

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