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August 10, 2023
Heroic ICE Whistleblower Featured in New Podcast, But Her Story Isn’t Over
WASHINGTON – Today, nurse and whistleblower Dawn Wooten tells her story on the new podcast “The Whistleblowers: Inside the Trump Administration.” Narrated by podcast host Miles Taylor, former chief of staff of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and author of Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy From the Next Trump, this riveting podcast tells the story of Ms. Wooten’s public disclosures of medical practices and public health failures at an ICE detention center, as well as her experience of retaliation, recent lawsuits, and what comes next for this brave truth-teller. By highlighting the individual stories of brave whistleblowers, this podcast demonstrates how vulnerable truth-tellers often become simply by choosing to do the right thing.
Ms. Dawn Wooten was a nurse at the Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC) run by LaSalle Corrections where she witnessed critical failures by leadership at the ICE facility to protect immigrants and workers from COVID-19, as well as invasive gynecological procedures, often rendering women sterile, without informed consent. After raising concerns internally and then to the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (OIG), her explosive revelations lead to ICE severing the contract at ICDC, ending immigration detention at that facility less than a year after her public whistleblowing.
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