For some reason, officials at the Northwest ICE Processing Center don’t want Washington health department inspectors to see inside the facility. The Washington Department of Health has received more than 3,000 complaints from detainees, former detainees and their families. They range from issues of food and water quality and lack of proper hygiene to allegations of abuse and medical neglect. A lawsuit recently was filed claiming sexual abuse. According to reports, some of those detained there — human beings — are living in squalor and peril, in conditions that put their health at risk. Health department inspectors have tried to enter the Tacoma facility 10 times since 2023, yet each time the private company that operates the facility, the GEO Group, refused entry. This, even after the state Legislature passed a law in 2023 that set basic health and safety standards for private detention centers and directed the state’s health department to inspect them. After much back and forth in court, the Ninth U.S.…