Former Irwin County Detention Center nurse Dawn Wooten blew the whistle this month when she outlined how immigrant women in ICE custody underwent surgeries, including hysterectomies, that they did not fully consent to or understand.
Based on those allegations, a caravan of congressional representatives, including Democratic U.S. Rep. Hank Johnson, went to the Southwest Georgia facility Saturday.
Now, because of what they saw, they’re calling for it to be shut down pending an ongoing investigation by the Department of Homeland Security’s inspector general, adding they heard firsthand accounts from detained women being forced to undergo gynecological procedures with dirty equipment that left them with serious infections.
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