ICE documents confirm gynecological abuse at Georgia immigration detention center

New Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) documents obtained by an organization

confirm abuses of immigrants at the Irwin detention center in Georgia. 

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (

Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington,

or CREW) says in again this report released Thursday that ICE not adequately supervised protocols informed consent used by the doctor accused of performing procedures not consensual to women detained in the facilities located in Georgia.

This center is already under investigation by the Government following complaints of questionable gynecological procedures, such as forced sterilizations, presented at the end of last year.

["I'm worse than before the operation": this was the ICE center closed for unnecessary surgeries on immigrants]

The organization demands

compensation for women

who underwent such gynecological procedures.

The report also highlights other long-standing problems and systematic oversight failures that are currently the subject of multiple federal investigations at this center.

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For years, immigrant advocates have raised concerns about the mistreatment of immigrants detained in the county-owned and operated Irwin facility, which has a contract with ICE to detain immigrants since 2011. 

In May, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that it was cutting ICE contracts with the facility "as soon as possible" due to "open and unresolved" investigations into abuses at the facility.

[A gynecologist from Georgia was the most feared among immigrants.

Now more than 40 dare to report]

The new ICE records obtained through a request for information confirm old problems at said center and describe a series of supervision failures by ICE, including:

• Lack of oversight of physician consent protocols and

  lack of translation services

  , as well as lack of Spanish-speaking medical personnel. 

Two immigrant women sit in their cell in the women's wing of an immigrant detention center.John Moore / Getty Images

• Several emails suggest that

  ICE did not monitor or monitor how third-party medical providers obtained the consent of detainees,

  or whether they used translation services when providing medical treatment to those with limited English proficiency.

• Violations of ICE detention standards regarding health care

  and how it investigates

  health care

  providers.

• Inspection reports found

  several violations of ICE detention standards and other deficiencies, such

  as the inability to "validate whether peer reviews have been conducted" by an "outside state physician" of "independently licensed medical professionals. "who paid attention to detained people.