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ICE transfers women out of detention center that became infamous over allegations of forced sterilization
The privately-run Irwin County Detention Center was the subject of a whistleblower complaint and a …
Charles Davis
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A 28-year-old Georgia ICE detainee awoke chained to a hospital bed and had to ask whether she could have children, LA Times reports
OB-GYNs and nursing experts reviewed 3,200 pages of medical records for women treated by Dr. Mahend…
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
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A Georgia ICE detention center is no longer sending detained women to a doctor who some said didn't fully explain their procedures to them
Irwin County Detention Center will no longer send detained women to Dr. Mahendra Amin for gynecolog…
Haven Orecchio-Egresitz
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Tennessee judge who routinely jailed children announced she's retiring, but traumatized former detainees say she's leaving the bench to 'avoid guilt'
One of the former detainees who was arrested and jailed as a minor said Judge Donna Davenport appea…
Katie Balevic
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Fentanyl spread through air vents at an Ohio detention center, sending 7 people, including corrections officers, to a hospital, authorities say
The victims were identified as three corrections officers and four juveniles. Authorities are condu…
Taylor Ardrey
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Biden administration will close 2 ICE detention centers in Georgia and Massachusetts after allegations of abuse
Both detention centers have come under federal investigation for accusations of abuse, including us…
Erin Snodgrass
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A leaked video exemplifies what Black migrants endure in US detention centers
Detainees and immigration lawyers say there is a disturbing and overlooked problem of anti-Black ra…
John Washington ,José Olivares
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A Michigan court has released the 15-year-old girl who was jailed for failing to complete her homework
Grace was released from a juvenile detention center in Michigan and reunited with her mother Friday…
Taylor Ardrey
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'For her own good': A Michigan judge said she won't release a 15-year-old Black girl who was jailed for not completing her online homework
The teen was jailed for allegedly violating her probation when she failed to meet a requirement to …
Taylor Ardrey
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Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey, who oversaw 'goon squad' that tortured Black men in Mississippi, is running for reelection unopposed
Rankin County Sheriff Bryan Bailey is running for reelection unopposed even after a "goon squad" of…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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The physician accused of performing unwanted hysterectomies in an ICE detention center is not a board certified OB-GYN
The American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology told the Daily Beast that Dr. Mahendra Amin is not …
Margot Harris
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Lawyers say they have identified the doctor at the center of a whistleblower complaint alleging women held in a Georgia detention center had hysterectomies without their knowledge
"All I know is, if you go in for anything, the majority of the time, he's going to suggest surgery,…
Sarah Al-Arshani
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A whistleblower is accusing doctors at an ICE detention center of surgically removing the wombs of some immigrant detainees
"I've had several inmates tell me ... they've had hysterectomies and they don't know why they went …
Sarah Al-Arshani
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Virginia juvenile detention center new coronavirus hotspot
Experts say that prisons and jails can act as petri-dishes for the coronavirus. Social distancing …
PTI
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An immigrant in an ICE detention center tested positive for the coronavirus. Immigrant advocates are fearing the worst.
Immigration advocates fear how the coronavirus might spread in detention facilities, where people a…
Havovi Cooper,Mark Abadi
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'Stuck in a system': Former child detainees speak out about a Tennessee juvenile detention center and the controversial judge who put them there
"Juvenile was not rehabilitation. It was more like torture," one person who served time in the Ruth…
Katie Balevic
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A Tennessee judge created and used policies - and a nonexistent law - to jail children, investigation finds
"I'm very harsh. I like to think I'm fair, but I'm tough," the judge, who touted her record as a di…
Katie Balevic
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A Mississippi man died strapped in a restraint chair after deputies arrested him while he was hallucinating. Almost a year later, his family are still waiting for answers.
Cory Jackson's family told Insider that they were trying to take him to the hospital but deputies a…
Kenneth Niemeyer,Hannah Beckl…
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Hospital for ICE detention center accused of mass hysterectomies says it only carried out 2, casting doubt on allegations
A whistleblower claimed hysterectomies were performed on women held by Immigration and Customs Enfo…
Sinéad Baker
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ICE deported a key witness in an ongoing sexual assault investigation at a Texas detention center, report says
The DHS Inspector General initially forbade the woman's deportation, but u-turned on Monday, The Te…