Immigrants in a US detention facility endured excessive, unnecessary gynecological procedures, often without consent, according to a bipartisan Senate investigation that offers the starkest details yet of alleged mistreatment.

The probe centers on the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia but raises red flags about inadequate safeguards throughout the immigration detention system, a senior Senate official said in an exclusive interview with Bloomberg Government before the release of the findings.

The Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations — a powerful panel of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee — will present at a Tuesday hearing the conclusions of its 18-month investigation into conditions at the Irwin County Detention Center. Chairman Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) and ranking member Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) led the review.

The investigation builds on earlier scrutiny of the privately run Georgia facility following allegations from a whistleblower who said a doctor contracted by the detention center had performed gynecological procedures on detainees without their consent. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas halted US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s use of the facility last year.

Senate investigators reviewed hundreds of thousands of pages of medical records and related documents, and determined immigrants at the Irwin...

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