House Democrats on the Homeland Security Committee included findings from inspectors at eight detention facilities.
in its facilities, one of the problems noted in the report. “The spread of COVID-19 has further highlighted how the failures to meet these standards of care are a matter of life and death,” the report found.On Monday, a 61-year-old Mexican national in ICE custody died in Georgia, the agency’s eighth coronavirus-related death, the agency confirmed.
The report follows allegations made last week by a former nurse who worked at the Irwin County Detention Facility in southern Georgia, one of the more than 200 detention facilities ICE uses nationwide. The nurse, Dawn Wooten, said the facility failed to adhere to coronavirus safety protocols, and she also alleged that a large number of unwanted hysterectomies have been performed on detainees by a local doctor known as “the uterus collector.
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