A federal judge on Wednesday ordered authorities to improve a Chicago-area immigration facility after a group of detainees sued, alleging they were being kept in “inhumane” conditions.

The order will be in effect for 14 days. It requires officials to provide detainees at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in the west Chicago suburb of Broadview with a clean bedding mat and sufficient space to sleep, soap, towels, toilet paper, toothbrushes, toothpaste, menstrual products and prescribed medications.

“People shouldn’t be sleeping next to overflowing toilets,” U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman said. “They should not be sleeping on top of each other.”

A message left Wednesday for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement wasn’t immediately returned.

Attorneys representing the federal government had argued that the conditions in the building were not bad enough to warrant the changes the plaintiffs requested. They said the proposed improvements would shut down the facility.

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