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To: Members of Congress, Georgia officials
Permanently close the Irwin County Detention Center!
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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has announced that they are planning to once again detain people at the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia, despite its disturbing history of human rights abuses.
The Irwin County Detention Center closed in 2021 after rampant reports of inhumane conditions and systemic medical abuses, including nonconsensual and medically unnecessary gynecological procedures.
It is an insult to every survivor who came forward to detail the harm caused at the Irwin County Detention Center—as well as their loved ones and community—to reopen under this administration.
Irwin County Detention Center must be closed permanently!
Why is this important?
More than 40 women testified in 2021 to medical misconduct at the Irwin County Detention Center (ICDC), and an investigation by the Senate found alarming reports of mistreatment by Dr. Mahendra Amin—who was not a board-certified OB-GYN—at ICDC and a failure by ICE and the private group operating the detention center to appropriately oversee the medical providers hired or intervene when complaints were made.
The Senate review committee found that Dr. Amin was "aggressive" and "inappropriate" and that his medical treatments were substandard. Many of the women subject to Dr. Amin’s harm report continued physical pain and uncertainty regarding their fertility.
It is abhorrent that dozens of women were subjected to these abuses under LaSalle Corrections' care.
It is abhorrent that Dr. Amin continues to practice in Southeast Georgia.
And it's abhorrent that ICE has decided to reopen ICDC despite its traumatic and shameful history.
Add your name to the petition to say NO to resuming jailing immigrants at the Irwin County Detention Center and demand its closure once and for all!