'Other officers have already tested positive and they are in hospitals, fighting for their lives as we speak,' one guard said. 'I am afraid to take COVID home, I do not want to take it to my family.'
"They have to be sent to a place where they can be treated properly and have personnel who strictly take care of them and have experience with that," he said."But the medical staff we have here is limited."conducted for ICE on March 12 by The Nakamoto Group, Inc. which determined that the conditions at the site were"acceptable.
nationwide there are 1,145 cases among detainees and 2,194 have been tested. There are 27,908 detainees in ICE custody, as of May 9; that means approximately 8 percent of detainees in ICE custody have been tested.originally from Mexico and recovering from rectal cancer. He was diagnosed with the coronavirus in a hospital, as confirmed by ICE to Telemundo, which like NBC News is owned by NBCUniversal.
Detainees are asking for better security measures. Uriel, a Mexican detainee at the Winn Correctional Center in Winnfield, Louisiana, also managed by LaSalle, said that workers and detainees were provided with masks only from the last week of April.
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