NEW: People held at an ICE detention center in Louisiana are subjected to undrinkable water, the constant threat of solitary confinement and limited access to doctors, they say.
In February 2021 a group of immigrant advocacy organizationsOffice for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and the DHS inspector general submitting testimony about what they described as “torture” and other abuses at the facility.
, three months after advocacy organizations wrote to DHS, the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties notified ICE that it would investigate several complaints against the Winn facility to determine whether the allegations were “indicative of systemic civil rights and civil liberties issues.” Among the matters it said it would investigate was the September 2020 death of a 56-year-old citizen of the Marshall Islands.
“Finally, ICE will continue to closely monitor conditions, including ongoing construction and remediation work at the facility, and take additional action as necessary,” the agency said at the time. “We are flagging all of these individuals because we believe ICE should know the circumstances and prioritize review of their custody for potential release,” the Southern Poverty Law Center wrote in its email., a bacterium that infects the stomach.
It wrote in the email exchange on April 20 that another detainee who arrived at Winn with one crutch that he was given before he arrived has “screws in his tibia and is in a lot of pain.” One of those problems, advocates and former detainees said, is the continued threat and use of forced isolation.
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