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22 Dec 20, 3 tweets, 2 min read
BREAKING: We filed a class action lawsuit last night on behalf of women who have faced medical abuse at Irwin

Along with @NIPNLG @ddreyer @ColumbiaLaw Immigrants' Rights Clinic & others

#ShutDownIrwin

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We are seeking an immediate end to the egregious retaliation against the women who spoke out against the abuse, release of the women who have suffered medical abuse, and compensation for the harms that the survivors suffered. #ShutDownIrwin
It is high time for this facility rife with human rights violations to be shut down and for ICE and LaSalle to be held accountable. #ShutDownIrwin

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23 Oct 20
BREAKING: LA Times documents the accounts of 19 mostly Black and Latinx immigrant women who suffered medical abuse while detained at Irwin

#ShutDownIrwin

latimes.com/politics/story…
“Both Dr. Amin and the referring detention facility took advantage of the vulnerability of women in detention to pressure them to agree to overly aggressive, inappropriate, and unconsented medical care,” according to the report filed by the medical experts.
“Because I am an immigrant, and I’m Black, that’s why this happened,” one of the women Wendy Dowe said. “No, I am not giving up. I still have hope that I will get some form of justice.”
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29 Jan 20
Amin is one of at least 17 #Iranian students turned away at US airports despite valid visas. He planned to pursue a PhD at U of Florida. Instead, he was chained & taken to the Deyton Detention Center in #Georgia. We @projectsouth have been documenting conditions there. THREAD.
@ProjectSouth Amin was placed in a chilly holding cell at the #Atlanta airport for six hours, then transported to Deyton. Where the officers ordered him to strip naked in front of them. “The moment I entered the cell, I lost my spirit,” he said.
@ProjectSouth After we successfully convinced #Atlanta to stop colluding w/ICE for detaining immigrants at the city jail, ICE turned elsewhere to fuel the detention machine. They secretly entered into an arrangement w/private prison corporation GEO group for detention of immigrants at Deyton.
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29 Aug 19
NEW revelations on suicide of Efrain De La Rosa at Stewart: investigation by @jlosc9 @theintercept @TheTakeaway shows how ICE & prison corporation CoreCivic failed this man w/mental health issues who was held in solitary for 21 days before he hung himself
theintercept.com/2019/08/29/ice…
@jlosc9 @theintercept @TheTakeaway Four people have died at Stewart in two years, two of them by suicide after they were held in solitary for prolonged periods. #ShutDownStewart democracynow.org/2019/7/30/pedr…
@jlosc9 @theintercept @TheTakeaway A CBS story last week showed that another man who died by suicide after he was held in solitary, Jeancarlo Jimenez-Joseph, requested FIVE TIMES that his med dosages be increased, to avail. Because Stewart had a year-long vacancy for full-time psychiatrist
cbsnews.com/news/jean-carl…
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