irwin county detention center

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New report complicates decarceration wins

“The Carceral Carousel” details how jails, prisons, and detention centers rarely shutter, but rather pivot to hold a different population

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8 Min
By: Tina Vásquez

Senate investigation of medical abuse at Georgia ICE facility confirms women’s stories

The investigation found a “catastrophic failure” to prevent Georgia OB-GYN Dr. Mahendra Amin from inflicting human rights abuses on detained women

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10 Min
By: Tina Vásquez

ICE ordered to end contract with facility where detained women were sterilized

Federal immigration authorities announced they will terminate their contract with the Irwin County Detention Center.

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3 Min
By: Tina Vásquez

EXCLUSIVE: FBI investigates Georgia doctor accused of sterilizing detained women

Multiple federal agencies are now investigating Mahendra Amin, the OB-GYN who reportedly performed unnecessary operations on both immigrants in federal custody and rural Georgia residents.

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4 Min
By: Tina Vásquez

ICE is now detaining women at one of the nation’s most deadly facilities

A Georgia detention center with the second-highest COVID-19 rate in the nation recently expanded the population of immigrants it detains to include women. In a statement to Prism, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) confirmed that as of Jan. 27, the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, detains 11 women. This

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4 Min
By: Tina Vásquez

Doctor accused of unnecessary operations ‘left a trail’ in local community

What happened to women detained at Georgia’s Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) is just as much a story about Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as it is about Mahendra Amin, the doctor alleged to have performed unnecessary gynecological procedures on detained women without their full and informed consent. Congress

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12 Min
By: Tina Vásquez

Detained women report they were inexplicably sent to doctor accused of sterilization

Attorneys, advocates, journalists, federal agencies, and members of Congress are working to learn more about what happened to the women at the Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) who allege they were sterilized and operated on without their full and informed consent by Douglas, Georgia, doctor named Mahendra Amin. The women’

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3 Min
By: Tina Vásquez

Immigrants allege mistreatment by Georgia doctor and whistleblower

A complicated picture is emerging of both the doctor accused of sterilizing detained women without their consent and the nurse who brought the information to light. The American public has expressed shock and disgust over the alleged actions of Mahendra Amin, the Georgia gynecologist accused of performing unnecessary hysterectomies on

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6 Min
By: Tina Vásquez

Exclusive: Georgia doctor who forcibly sterilized detained women has been identified

Under the Trump administration, reproductive injustice has run rampant inside the federal immigration system—stretching far beyond the family separation policy at the border. A complaint filed yesterday sheds light on a new atrocity: Women detained at the Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) in Georgia have allegedly been sterilized without

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5 Min
By: Tina Vásquez

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