The Biden administration has terminated the contract of a Georgia detention facility where women claim they were subjected to unwanted medical procedures.
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Caption Dawn Wooten (left), who filed the whistleblower complaint about conditions at the Irwin County Detention Center, participates in a news conference on Sept. 16, 2020. Credit: GPB file photo
The Biden administration has ordered the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla and a second county jail in Massachusetts to stop housing immigrant detainees,
The Washington Post reported Thursday.
An order signed by Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is part of a broader review of how U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) handles immigrant detainees.
Both the Irwin County facility and the jail in Bristol County, Mass., are under federal investigation following complaints of abuses of detainees.
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The decision is part of a broader reevaluation by the Biden administration of the federal government’s approach to these facilities.
A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer looks on during an operation. | Gregory Bull/AP Photo
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The Department of Homeland Security is moving to halt detention of immigrants in two county jails under federal investigation, according to three sources familiar with the matter.
The decision involves jails in Massachusetts and Georgia and is part of a broader reevaluation by the Biden administration of the federal government’s approach to these facilities.
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