{"id":17331,"date":"2020-09-22T08:14:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T08:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/galeo.org\/2020\/09\/comunicado-de-prensa-solicitando-una-investigacion-inmediata-del-trato-inhumano-de-personas-detenidas-en-centros-de-detencion-de-inmigrantes-en-georgia\/"},"modified":"2023-03-13T13:42:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T13:42:47","slug":"comunicado-de-prensa-solicitando-una-investigacion-inmediata-del-trato-inhumano-de-personas-detenidas-en-centros-de-detencion-de-inmigrantes-en-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galeo.org\/es\/2020\/09\/comunicado-de-prensa-solicitando-una-investigacion-inmediata-del-trato-inhumano-de-personas-detenidas-en-centros-de-detencion-de-inmigrantes-en-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"COMUNICADO DE PRENSA: Solicitando una Investigaci\u00f3n Inmediata del Trato Inhumano de Personas Detenidas en Centros de Detenci\u00f3n de Inmigrantes en Georgia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Re: Requesting Immediate Investigation of Inhumane Treatment of Individuals Detained in Immigration Detention Facilities in Georgia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dear Members of the Georgia Delegation to the 116th<\/sup> U.S. Congress:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We are writing as a coalition of leaders from Georgia\u2019s law, medicine, faith, immigrant and human rights communities to express our outrage over the continuing inhumane treatment of immigrants held in ICE custody in our state,[i]<\/sup><\/a> resulting in the death of a third man from COVID-19 at Stewart Detention Center and growing evidence that women at Irwin County Detention Center have been subjected to medical abuse, neglect, and mismanagement, including unnecessary gynecologic procedures performed without their informed consent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thousands of men and women, many seeking protection from torture and persecution, are detained in Georgia by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) while they await the resolution of their immigration case. For years, there have been reports of inhumane conditions in ICE detention facilities here, including unsafe and unsanitary living quarters, substandard medical care and medical neglect, and excessive use of isolation and force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2019, a Congressional oversight committee demanded that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) investigate mistreatment of immigrants in ICE custody in Georgia.[ii]<\/sup><\/a> In 2018, Atlanta journalists obtained nearly one hundred pages of records from the DHS Inspector General that described life-threatening conditions at Stewart, including \u201cchronic shortages\u201d of almost all medical positions.\u201d[iii]<\/sup><\/a> In 2017, the Inspector General concluded that Stewart Detention Center was plagued by \u201cproblems that undermine the protection of detainees\u2019 rights, their humane treatment, and the provision of a safe and healthy environment\u201d and demanded remedies that have yet to occur. [iv]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Advocates, including those who have signed this letter, have repeatedly written to DHS and members of this Georgia Delegation, filed lawsuits, and lodged complaints to address these ongoing concerns.  These include submissions to the InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in 2018 and 2019, following the deaths of four individuals at Stewart in just two years.  Among the lives lost were Jeancarlo Jim\u00e9nez-Joseph, 27, and Efrain Romero de la Rosa, 40, two men with diagnosed mental illness who hung themselves by their bedsheets after suffering for weeks in solitary      confinement.[v]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, the thousands of people detained in ICE facilities in Georgia have faced an additional deadly threat:  the rapid spread of COVID-19, unchecked by adequate health and safety precautions.[vi]<\/sup><\/a>  Today, nearly 500 men and women have contracted the virus in Georgia immigration detention facilities and many more Georgians employed there have been infected, making these facilities life-threatening not only for those inside, but for all those living in neighboring rural communities where health resources are already in short supply.[vii]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yesterday brought the tragic news that yet another person has died in ICE custody in our state.  On September 21, the Stewart County Coroner announced that a third man had lost his life after contracting the disease in detention,[viii]<\/sup><\/a> giving Stewart Detention Center the unwanted distinction of having the most COVID deaths of any ICE facility in the U.S.  The death toll now includes Santiago Baten-Oxlaj, 34; Jose Guillen-Vega, 70; and Cipriano Chavez-Alvarez, 61.[ix]<\/sup><\/a> Guillen-Vega and Chavez-Alvarez were both medically-vulnerable detainees at high risk of dying from COVID-19, due to their older age and their histories of hypertension and other disease.[x]<\/sup><\/a> Medical professionals have specifically urged the release of individuals with comorbidities at Stewart but have been ignored by ICE on numerous occasions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stewart is not the only Georgia facility with dangerously inadequate COVID-19 protections.  In April, nine women detained at Irwin made a video recording expressing their fear of contracting the disease and begging for better protections.[xi]<\/sup><\/a> As reported by the Atlanta Journal Constitution:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe\u2019re very afraid of being incarcerated here and dying here,\u201d one detainee said. Another woman said she had been the first Irwin detainee to contract the virus. But at the facility\u2019s medical clinic, \u201cthey simply dismissed me,\u201d she said. \u201cThey said, \u2018You\u2019re fine, go back to your cell.\u2019\u201d A third detainee, fighting tears, held a hand-lettered sign asking for protection. \u201cWe\u2019re scared,\u201d she said. \u201cMy God, we\u2019re scared.\u201d[xii]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If not bad enough, there is now mounting evidence that women at Irwin have been exposed to unnecessary and unwanted gynecological procedures without their informed consent, including the removal of reproductive organs, which have compromised their health and left them forever unable to bear children.  These reports are included in a complaint filed by Georgia advocacy groups on September 14, highlighting \u201cjarring accounts from detained immigrants and Ms. [Dawn] Wooten [a whistleblower nurse from Irwin] regarding the deliberate lack of medical care, unsafe work practices, and absence of adequate protection against COVID-19 for detained immigrants and employees alike.\u201d[xiii]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On September 23, 2020 the women met with lawyers and reiterated their plea:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe seek immediate freedom for those affected in order to heal somewhere that healing is possible and continue their immigration cases outside of detention.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Whether ICE officials authorized these medical abuses or allowed them to continue through a pattern of medical neglect and poor oversight, these allegations implicate the United States\u2019 obligations under the Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, according to The Center for Victims of Torture.[xiv]<\/sup><\/a> The United Nations special rapporteur on torture has made clear that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

[M]edical treatments of an intrusive and irreversible nature, when lacking a therapeutic purpose, may constitute torture or ill-treatment when enforced or administered without the free and informed consent of the person concerned\u2026. This is particularly the case when intrusive and irreversible, nonconsensual treatments are performed on patients from marginalized groups, such as persons with disabilities, notwithstanding claims of good intentions or medical necessity.[xv]<\/sup><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As professionals who live and work in Georgia, we know that our state\u2019s strong faith tradition and humanitarian spirit mandate that we treat all those within our borders, including those most vulnerable, with decency and compassion. We are outraged that ICE and its private detention corporations continue to operate in our state with complete disregard for these basic principles that Georgians hold dear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We, therefore, respectfully urge you to come together as a delegation and, on behalf of the people of Georgia, request a prompt and thorough investigation into the continuing reports of medical neglect and abuse at ICE facilities here.  More than that, we ask that you hold ICE accountable for its longstanding failure to remedy these problems and provide necessary oversight to ensure the humane treatment of every person in its custody, and that you demand it suspend operation of its facilities in our state unless and until it can provide medical care that meets professional standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sincerely,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Coalition of Georgia Leaders in Law, Medicine, Faith, Immigrant and Human Rights:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris Allen, PhD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Harris Allen Group, LLC<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Samantha Alonso, MD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assistant Professor, Emory University Medical School<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rori Alston<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ARAA Home Care, LLC<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vicki Alston<\/p>\n\n\n\n

ARAA Home Care, LLC<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alpa Amin, Esq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director of Legal Services, Georgia Asylum and Immigration Network<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gilberte (\u201cGigi\u201d) Bastien, Ph.D.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associate Director \u2013 Office of Global Health Equity
Assistant Professor \u2013 Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Morehouse School of Medicine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rabbi Peter S. Berg<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Temple, Atlanta GA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Blevins, ThD, MDiv<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interfaith Health Program, Emory University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brian Bollinger<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Executive Director, Friends of Refugees<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lila Newberry Bradley, Esq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claiborne, Fox, Bradley, Goldman Law Firm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jennie E. Burnet, Ph.D.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taifa S. Butler<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President & CEO, Georgia Budget and Policy Institute.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rev. Letitia M. Campbell, PhD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Candler School of Theology, Emory University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Valeria Cantos, MD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assistant Professor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Division of Infectious Diseases<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emory University School of Medicine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephanie Cho<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Executive Director, Asian Americans Advancing Justice \u2013 Atlanta<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jonathan Colasanti MD MSPH<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emory University School of Medicine & Rollins School of Public Health<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laura Colbert<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Executive Director, Georgians for a Healthy Future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mikiel Davids, Esq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kramer Partners, LLP<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paula Davis-Olwell, Ph.D., M.A.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Global Health Institute and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics<\/p>\n\n\n\n

University of Georgia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karla Diaz, Esq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Victims of Violence Attorney, Georgia Asylum and Immigration Network<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sr. Angela Marie Ebberwein, RSM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercy Care<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dabney P. Evans, PhD, MPH<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emory University Rollins School of Public Health and Director, Institute of Human Rights<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ruth Evans<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Executive Director, Unite<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maura Finn<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SIFI Lead Attorney| Immigrant Justice Project<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Southern Poverty Law Center<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Staci Fox<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President & CEO, Planned Parenthood Southeast<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anne Gaglioti, MD, MS, FAAFP<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associate Professor of Family Medicine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associate Director of Research, National Center for Primary Care<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director, Southeast Regional Clinicians Network<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Morehouse School of Medicine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elton Garcia-Castillo<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GA Familias Unidas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Betsy Gard, Ph.D.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Licensed Georgia Psychologist<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jerry Gonzalez<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Executive Director, GALEO & GALEO Latino Community Development Fund<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Board Member of the GALEO Impact Fund, Inc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jordan Greenbaum, MD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Physicians for Human Rights, Georgia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Judah Gruen, MD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assistant Professor<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u200bAssociate Medical Director, Grady PrEP Program<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grady Memorial Hospital | Emory University School of Medicine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

America Gruner<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President, Coalicion de Lideres Latinos, Inc<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jodie L. Guest, PhD, MPH<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emory University Rollins School of Public Health and Director, Emory Farmworker Project<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rev. Dr. David P. Gushee<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director, Center for Theology & Public Life, Mercer University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Past President, American Academy of Religion & Society of Christian Ethics<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Janora Hawkins, Esq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chair, Georgia\/Alabama Chapter, American Immigration Lawyers Association<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Erica Heiman, MD, MS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assistant Professor
Division of General Medicine
Emory University School of Medicine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lynn Heinisch<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Global Health Communications Specialist, Atlanta<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stacy Higgins, MD, FACP<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor, Emory University School of Medicine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

William Hoffmann, Esq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Senior Counsel, Georgia Asylum and Immigration Network<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adaobi Iheduru, Psy.D.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Center for Victims of Torture Georgia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tim Isaacson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Executive Director, Immigrant Hope-Atlanta<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kwajelyn J. Jackson<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Executive Director, Feminist Women\u2019s Health Center<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sarah Juul, MD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Private Practice in Psychiatry, Decatur, Georgia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ameeta Kalokhe, MD MSc
Associate Professor
Emory University School of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
Emory Rollins School of Public Health, Department of Global Health<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sheena Kandiah, MD MPH<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Medical Director, Antimicrobial Stewardship, Grady Health System<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emory University School of Medicine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Renuka Kapoor, PhD, MPH<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hubert Department of Global Health, CNR- 6000.R<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rollins School of Public Health<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emory University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Serene Kashlan, Esq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Asylum Attorney, Georgia Asylum and Immigration Network<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nadine J. Kaslow, PhD, ABPP<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emory School of Medicine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russell Kempker, MD, MSc<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associate Professor, Division of Infectious Diseases<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emory University School of Medicine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Monica Khant, Esq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Executive Director, Georgia Asylum and Immigration Network<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Khoury, MD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associate Professor, Emory University School of Medicine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Co-director, Georgia Human Rights Clinic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tracie L. Klinke, Esq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Klinke Immigration, LLC<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sr. Kathy Komarek<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mercy Care<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charles H. Kuck, Esq.
Kuck Baxter Immigration, LLC<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vanessa Kung, MD, PhD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emory University School of Medicine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rabbi Loren Filson Lapidus<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Temple, Atlanta GA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marissa Lapedis, MD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assistant Professor, Family Medicine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Morehouse School of Medicine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edivette Lopez-Benn, Esq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Law Office of Edivette Lopez-Benn, P.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Darlene C. Lynch, Esq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Center for Victims of Torture Georgia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amber Mack, MSW<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition of Georgia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

J.D. McCrary<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Executive Director, The International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Atlanta<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elizabeth Matherne, Esq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kuck Baxter Immigration LLC<\/p>\n\n\n\n

South Georgia Office \u2013 Adel<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Howard M. Maziar, MD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kerry E. McGrath, Esq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Law Office of Kerry E. McGrath, LLC<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rabbi Lydia Medwin<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Temple, Atlanta, GA<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Grace Moore<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Refuge Coffee Company<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marjan Nadir<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Refugee Women\u2019s Network<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iyabo Onipede
Co-Director, Compassionate Atlanta<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Edith Oriciaga<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SPLC Action Fund, Ocilla<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lily Pabian<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Executive Director, We Love BuHi<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maria del Rosario Palacios<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Executive Director, GA Familias Unidas<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kathleen A. Parker, MA, MPH, CHES ret.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Public Health Education Specialist, 1983-2004<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aixa Pascual, M.A.L.D, M.S.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Managing Director, Latin American Association<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gilda (Gigi) Pedraza<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Executive Director and Founder, Latino Community Fund<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paulina Rebolledo, MD MSc<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assistant Professor of Medicine and Global Health<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emory University School of Medicine and Rollins School of Public Health<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sita Ranchod-Nillson, Ph.D.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former Director, Emory Institute for Developing Nations<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laura Rivera<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Director, Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Southern Poverty Law Center<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Francois Rollin, MD, MPH<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assistant Professor of Medicine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emory University School of Medicine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jessica Rollin, MD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rollin Psychiatry<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leanne Rubenstein
Co-Director, Compassionate Atlanta<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diego Sanchez, Esq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SPLC Action Fund, Ocilla<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jasdeep Sandhu MD, MPH<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Psychiatrist, Atlanta<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nan Schivone<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Justice in Motion<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stacie Schmidt, MD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Medical Director, Primary Care<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Associate Professor, Division of General Medicine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emory University School of Medicine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. R. Sexson, MD MAB HEC-C FAAP<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Professor of Pediatrics\/Neonatology<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Neonatologist, Bioethicist<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Emory University School of Medicine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Kevin Shanker Sinha<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Founder, CivicGeorgia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Parmi S. Suchdev, MD, MPH, FAAP<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Associate Director, Emory Global Health Institute<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Director, Global Health Office of Pediatrics<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Professor, Department of Pediatrics and Hubert Department of Global Health<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Emory University<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Sr. Patricia Sullivan, OP<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Shana Tabak<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Executive Director, Tahirih Justice Center Georgia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Maria Thacker-Goethe<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Executive Director, Georgia Global Health Alliance<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Reverend Robert Thompson
    Founder, Compassionate Atlanta<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Amilcar Valencia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Executive Director, El Refugio<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Sarah Y. Vinson, MD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Pediatrics,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Morehouse School of Medicine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Founder and Principal Consultant,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Lorio Forensics<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Cecil Walker, MFT<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    The Center for Victims of Torture Georgia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Lorilei Williams, Esq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    SPLC Action Fund, Ocilla<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Amy Zeidan, MD<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Associate Professor, Emory University School of Medicine<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Co-director, Georgia Human Rights Clinic<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    [i]<\/a> ICE detention facilities in Georgia are run by private, for-profit corporations and include Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin (CoreCivic Corporation) and Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla (LaSalle Corrections), as well as Folkston Detention Center in Folkston and Deyton Detention Facility in Lovejoy (GEO Group).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    [ii]<\/a>https:\/\/oversight.house.gov\/sites\/democrats.oversight.house.gov\/files\/2019-11-18.CBM%20to%20Cuffari%20-%20DHS%20IG%20re%20StaffDels.pdf<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    [iii]<\/a> Elly Yu, WABE, Exclusive: An ICE Detention Center\u2019s Struggle With \u2018Chronic\u2019 Staff Shortages, May 13, 2018, https:\/\/www.wabe.org\/exclusive-an-ice-detention-centers-struggle-with-chronic-staff-shortag,citing Records of U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Inspector General, Office of Inspections & Evaluations, provided in response to Freedom of Information Request, dated January 11, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    [iv]<\/a> Department of Homeland Security, Office of Inspector General, \u201cConcerns about ICE Detainee Treatment and Care at Detention Facilities,\u201d December 11, 2017, https:\/\/www.oig.dhs.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/assets\/2017-12\/OIG18-32-Dec17.pdf<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    [v]<\/a> Project South\/Detention Watch Submission to the US Commission on Civil Rights, May 13, 2019, https:\/\/projectsouth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Comment-to-U.S.-Commision-on-Civil-Rights-Georgia-Detention-Centers.pdf; Project South\/Detention Watch Submission to InterAmerican Commission on Human Rights, July 17, 2018, https:\/\/projectsouth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IACHR-Request-For-Hearing-Immigrant-Detention-in-Georgia_169-Period-of-Sessions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    [vi]<\/a> ICE reports of COVID-19 cases are found at https:\/\/www.ice.gov\/coronavirus<\/a>. Letters detailing inadequate COVID-19 protections include Coalition Letter to Georgia Congressional Delegation, March 31, 2020; Open Letter to Executive Office for Immigration Review and Department of Homeland Security, March 17, 2020.  See also, Center for Victims of Torture, \u201cTorture Survivors Confront COVID-19 in ICE Detention, July 22, 2020 at https:\/\/medium.com\/@cvt.communications\/torture-survivors-confront-covid-19-in-ice-detention-3ae97c6efa9e<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    [vii]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ice.gov\/coronavirus<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    [viii]<\/a>https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/third-ice-detainee-dies-from-covid-19-in-southwest-georgia\/LE3CHB24HFDWBBHADYHZEB5EMY\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    [ix]<\/a>https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/second-ice-detainee-dies-from-covid-19-in-southwest-georgia\/IQLKPYX7AVESZLCQ2EKLWBP2KU\/<\/a>; https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/third-ice-detainee-dies-from-covid-19-in-southwest-georgia\/LE3CHB24HFDWBBHADYHZEB5EMY\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    [x]<\/a> https:\/\/www.ice.gov\/doclib\/coronavirus\/eroCOVID19responseReqsCleanFacilities.pdf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    [xi]<\/a> https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=aQt6QbkWsLI&feature=youtu.be<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    [xii]<\/a>https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/news\/third-ice-detainee-dies-from-covid-19-in-southwest-georgia\/LE3CHB24HFDWBBHADYHZEB5EMY\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    [xiii]<\/a> https:\/\/projectsouth.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/09\/OIG-ICDC-Complaint-1.pdf<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    [xiv]<\/a>ww.cvt.org\/news-events\/press-releases\/cvt-calls-immediate-investigation-new-reports-gross-human-rights-abuses<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    [xv]<\/a>https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/Documents\/HRBodies\/HRCouncil\/RegularSession\/Session22\/A.HRC.22.53_English.pdf.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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