National World News: Podcast: What Did the Investigation into Medical Abuse Against Women Held in an ICE Facility
This article features Government Accountability Project whistleblower client, Dawn Wooten, and was originally published here.
Although only 4 percent of all women placed in ICE custody between 2017 and 2020 at the Irvine County Detention Center, Dr. Mahendra Amin, the detention center’s gynecologist, performed four procedures specific gynecological procedures (such as laparoscopy, depo). out of which more than 80 percent performed. -Provera injection, pelvic exam, and treatment) in detainees during that time.
In September 2020, nurse Dawn Wooten, a gynecologist at the Irvine County Detention Center (CIDC) in Osilla, Georgia, reported unnecessary medical procedures, including hysterectomies (surgical removal of the uterus) for women detained by Immigrants and Customs Was doing Enforcement Services (ICE).
A month later, 19 women alleged that Dr Mahendra Amin, a gynecologist at the CIDC Detention Centre, performed and pressured them to undergo highly invasive and medically unnecessary surgeries without their consent.
The complaints triggered a federal and congressional investigation into the treatment of immigrant women at this detention center, and on November 15, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee presented its findings.
The 108-page report was presented by the subcommittee’s chairman, Georgia Democratic Sen. Jon Ossoff, and concluded that the allegation of...
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