Thread by @ImmCivilRights

New:
@ProjectSouth & Yulio Castro’s widow sued ICE for illegally withholding #FOIA records about Yulio’s death after becoming ill at the Stewart Detention Center in GA.

Here’s Complaint, filed with @ashahshahani and her team and attorney Brian Spears: projectsouth.org/wp-content/upl…

After filing suit, @ProjectSouth got the Detainee Death Report ICE has inexplicably failed to post to its website.

Here are some key points:

The review includes evidence of a practice of failing to comply with the Immigrant Health Services Corps (IHSC)’s guidelines for people suffering from hypertension.

It’s clear why: Doing so would trigger IHSC’s Special MedicalNeeds Patients Policy & increase cost of care.

Here’s a link to the IHSC Special Needs policy, which we obtained through a separate #FOIA lawsuit, involving ANOTHER death at Stewart: documentcloud.org/documents/6025…

The effect of these systemic failures is to make the imprisoned population look less sick and less needing of medical care and resources than they actually are. And in the process, increase the likelihood for serious, preventable harm and death.
@kenklippenstein’s scoop confirms