Nurse Questions Medical Care at Immigration Jail in Georgia
OCILLA, Ga. (AP) — A nurse at an immigration detention center in Georgia says authorities performed questionable hysterectomies, refused to test detainees for COVID-19, and shredded medical records.
Advocacy group Project South has filed a complaint with the Homeland Security Department's internal watchdog that relies heavily on the nurse's words. Dawn Wooten calls a gynecologist who works outside the facility “the uterus collector.”
She says she saw a sick-call nurse shred a box of detainee complaints without looking at them. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says it will defer to the Homeland Security inspector general.
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