2/ A man calls to report suffering a neck injury at the hands of a detention officer and then not receiving proper medical care. 
3/ An allegedly 2-year campaign of discrimination and harassment that includes retaliatory solitary confinement, denial of access to mail, and a failure of ICE to respond to prior complaints
4/ This report of two suicide attempts by detained immigrants in March 2017 came days before Jean Jimenez got to Stewart, and right around the same time @DHSOIG was hearing from facility staff that the place was a "ticking bomb" as documented by @ellywyu revealnews.org/blog/staff-des…
5/ This report might seem relatively mundane in light of the rest: A man was in one ICE prison when his hearing was at another. ICE and the Court didn't work it out so he could get to his hearing. Without going to his hearing, he has no real shot of getting free.
6/ Appears to be a straight-up illegal detention by ICE of a lawful permanent resident based on bunk information about his criminal history. If you're this dude's lawyer, HMU
7/ If you don't read anything else in this thread, please read all of this. CoreCivic guards apparently sickened a man in protective custody deploying pepper spray on the person next to him, who was also in solitary. @HispanicCaucus - THiS IS WHAT YOU ARE FUNDING.
8/ Alleged sexual assault by a nurse at Stewart. This should be in the facility's PREA report. Here's that report, prepared by the Nakamoto Group, from a few months later: ice.gov/doclib/foia/pr…
Apparently this allegation, which was supposed to be referred to OPR, wasn't.
Apparently this allegation, which was supposed to be referred to OPR, wasn't.
9/ 🚨Here's a #whistleblower report about the Stewart Detention Center that is absolutely brutal.
This is a cry for help from a clearly distraught insider.
@ProjectSouth @MigrantFreedom @elrefugioga @splcenter @wabenews @ajc @jlosc9 @BennieGThompson @RepHankJohnson
This is a cry for help from a clearly distraught insider.
@ProjectSouth @MigrantFreedom @elrefugioga @splcenter @wabenews @ajc @jlosc9 @BennieGThompson @RepHankJohnson
10/ Should we keep going?
11/ What do we think? Do these folks' experiences in ICE prisons merit more of our attention? Or should we adopt the approach of Congressional appropriators and simply look away?
@NeverAgainActn
@NeverAgainActn
12/ "Pigs and Cows in a stable or barnyard" is how one detained immigrant at Stewart described his treatment.
14/ Another employee whistleblower complaint from Stewart.
15/ "has to return to his country to take care of his sick wife."
This is EXACTLY the effect ICE prison is intended to have. Doesn't make it any more horrifying that the regime convinced this man he was being punished.
This is EXACTLY the effect ICE prison is intended to have. Doesn't make it any more horrifying that the regime convinced this man he was being punished.
16/ A sister in California trying desperately for the fifth time to bring her brother closer to his family. A reminder that ICE prisons are #familyseparation.
17/ Anti-LGBTQI discrimination complaint at Stewart. Based on the redaction, best guess is the discriminating party who "doesn't want homosexuals in his unit" is "Lt." - i.e., a person who's working for the government.
18/ In light of the complaints that ICE received in the two months leading up to Jean's death, it's tough to see how this could have come as a surprise to anyone who was paying attention. #JusticeforJean interc.pt/2LrrGi2
19/ ICE's initial intake report for Mr. Patel's death, which happened the same week as Jean's
#DetentionKills
#DetentionKills
20/ "states [redacted ICE officer name] came to talk to him about his case and hold him to stop talking bad about the officers or he would be sent back to his original country."
For many, including but not limited to asylum-seekers, this is tantamount to a death threat.
For many, including but not limited to asylum-seekers, this is tantamount to a death threat.
21/ In the wake of Jean's deaths, reports of abuse came rolling in.
Guards telling detained migrants which ones have IV.
"[redacted] says the detainees are also treated like animals or trash. [redacted] states although the detainees are being deported, they are still human."
Guards telling detained migrants which ones have IV.
"[redacted] says the detainees are also treated like animals or trash. [redacted] states although the detainees are being deported, they are still human."
22/ The bravery of these folks locked inside making reports and trusting the system to investigate is matched only by the cowardice of those who failed to do so.
Guard tells detained migrant if he reports her, "she was going to make his life 'a living hell'.
This is torture.
Guard tells detained migrant if he reports her, "she was going to make his life 'a living hell'.
This is torture.
23/ Immigration imprisonment is #familyseparation
"[redacted] has been at Stewart Detention Center for about one year, and has difficulty seeing his family. [He] is requesting to be transferred to a facility in either Texas or Florida so his family can visit him."
"[redacted] has been at Stewart Detention Center for about one year, and has difficulty seeing his family. [He] is requesting to be transferred to a facility in either Texas or Florida so his family can visit him."
24/ The very same abusive solitary confinement practices and medical neglect, over and over again.
25/ Allegations of physical abuse, guard impunity.
26/ Chronic understaffing had exactly the effect on the people locked inside Stewart that the people holding the keys predicted: The erosion of personal safety and physical security while those responsible for providing it-ICE/Corecivic look the other way oig.dhs.gov/sites/default/…
27/ Marriage is a fundamental constitutional right. It's also an important avenue to protection from deportation, so long as the marriage is bona fide. It seems, however, that this right, and this avenue for relief, didn't exist in Stewart for this African migrant.
28/ Here's Stewart allegedly blinding a man by failing to get him adequate, prompt, and appropriate medical care in time.
cc: @creeclaw @splcenter
cc: @creeclaw @splcenter
29/ Man in solitary at Stewart says he has a "severe mental disorder" and the medical department has recommended his placement in general population. This was two months after Jean died.
30/ Absolutely brutal call from the loved one whose relative is on hunger strike in Stewart.
31/ Pretty revealing complaint from a Salvadoran asylum-seeker about how his treatment at Stewart compares to the torture and murder he fled to escape.
32/ Heartbreaking to see what this father is doing to get back home to his medically fragile US Citizen daughter, and to know that "prosecutorial discretion" ended six months before he took the time and effort to submit these materials in the earnest hope that someone would hear,
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The documents above came from 250 pages of #FOIA releases covering 4 mos of calls to the ICE/OIG intake line from one facility housing nearly 2000 humans.
Currently there are about 50,000 adults in ICE prisons every night, and the regime's abuses have gone unremedied.
The documents above came from 250 pages of #FOIA releases covering 4 mos of calls to the ICE/OIG intake line from one facility housing nearly 2000 humans.
Currently there are about 50,000 adults in ICE prisons every night, and the regime's abuses have gone unremedied.
PS: I've shared these Complaints out of respect for the people who made them, because I believe their voices should be heard, and I see in these records that too often they were not. If you're this far, thank you for opening space to hear.
Now the Q is what will you do about it?
Now the Q is what will you do about it?
Important correction to this one: This is a report of a detained immigrant sexually assaulting a nurse, NOT the nurse assaulting the migrant. That wouldn’t be in the PREA report. My mistake. Apologies.
