THREAD: Today the House @OversightDems published shocking findings of its investigation into ICE jails run by private contractors. @RepRaskin: "An epidemic of medical neglect & mistreatment at detention centers has caused undue suffering & even death.” 1/ oversight.house.gov/news/press-rel…
This report is hard to read. It gives example on example of abuses committed by ICE, CoreCivic & GEO w/ intentional cruelty, and reminds us how many previous reports uncovering the same abuses have gone completely unaddressed by ICE and its contractors. 2/ oversight.house.gov/news/press-rel…
The Committee investigated Mr. Huy Chi Tran's death at the Eloy detention center. Mr. Tran never got the medication he needed for mental illness and was put in solitary. After Mr. Tran died, a guard falsified records to cover up his failure to monitor Mr. Tran before he died. 3/
It is impossible to over-state the horrors in this report. Deaths caused by negligence, dirty food preparation, moldy bathrooms, ICE and contractors' brutal disregard for requests for medical care... it goes on. Read @Haleaziz's coverage for more. 4/ buzzfeednews.com/article/hameda…
This report sits on top of a stack of fresh revelations of atrocities in ICE jails. It follows right on the heels of the House Homeland Security Committee’s new report documenting the systemic failure by ICE to meet basic standards of care. 5/ homeland.house.gov/news/press-rel…
And because of the bravery of a whistleblower, the world now knows of hysterectomies performed without consent and widespread medical negligence at the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia. 6/ @ProjectSouth @GovAcctProj whistleblower.org/press-release/…
And also: none of this is new. Immigrants in detention, their loved ones, advocates, and government watchdogs have issued report after report after report for years. ICE knows. Everyone knows. And people keep dying and ICE keeps tearing families apart. 7/ theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
How many deaths, how many reports, how many thousands of pages documenting abuses and impunity for those abuses, must there be before elected officials and leaders of conscience demand that we #DefundHate and #EndDetention now? 8/ immigrantjustice.org/research-items…
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