The Hill: Where is Accountability? Alleged Abuses Persist in ICE Detention
This article features Government Accountability Project whistleblower client claims and was originally published here.
More than two years following a whistleblower complaint alleging egregious medical neglect and abuse at the Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC), the Senate held its first hearing aimed at providing accountability for rights violations committed against migrant women held there in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody.
The hearing followed a bipartisan, 18-month investigation initiated by the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, led by Sens. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.) and Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), and the ensuing Report on Medical Mistreatment of Women in ICE Detention. The subcommittee’s hearing and report confirmed what migrants formerly detained at ICDC and in detention centers across the country and advocates have claimed for years: ICE failed to ensure adequate oversight of off-site medical providers contracted for the treatment of people held in its custody, and when put on notice of medical neglect and abuse, failed to take the corrective measures required to guard against such abuses, and to ensure adequate medical care at ICDC.
The Senate subcommittee’s report follows a January 2022 report from Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) of its own investigation into alleged abuses at ICDC, instigated by the filing of the September 2020...
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