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4 days agoBay Area Lawyers Ask Court to Stop ICE From Keeping Immigrants in Holding Rooms for Days | KQED
"These spaces cannot hold people safely for more than 12 hours, fundamentally, as a matter of operations and a matter of physical layout," LCCRSF attorney Marissa Hatton declared at federal court in San José. One plaintiff, Martin Hernandez Torres, told lawyers that federal agents deprived him of his blood pressure medication while he was detained overnight, resulting in a hypertensive crisis that may have left him with permanent brain damage.
US politics
US politics
fromenglish.elpais.com
2 weeks agoArrested by ICE and deported in a vegetative state: A Costa Rican man's family seeks answers after his death
A deported Costa Rican man returned in a vegetative state and later died; family alleges neglect during U.S. detention and seeks international accountability.
US politics
fromenglish.elpais.com
3 weeks agoThe ordeal of pregnant women detained by ICE: Malnutrition, isolation, and miscarriages
Pregnant migrants detained by ICE face inadequate prenatal care, denial of vitamins, restraints, solitary confinement, medical neglect, and increased detention under recent policies.
US politics
fromwww.independent.co.uk
1 month agoMy anti-vax mother never told me my sister had died after refusing chemotherapy'
Journalism funding supports on-the-ground reporting across the political spectrum, enabling investigations into reproductive rights, climate change, Big Tech, and cases of alleged medical neglect.
Social justice
fromTruthout
1 month agoDHS Plans More State-Run Extrajudicial Black Sites Like "Alligator Alcatraz"
A detainee at "Alligator Alcatraz" suffered a severe medical emergency, received inadequate care from guards, and was effectively administratively disappeared by state and federal authorities.
Medicine
fromwww.standard.co.uk
2 months agoGirl, 6, sent home to die' from London A&E after doctors dismiss sickle cell complication as stomach flu
A six-year-old child with sickle cell disease died of splenic sequestration after emergency staff misdiagnosed and discharged her, and an inquest found contributory neglect by the hospital trust.
fromwww.aljazeera.com
3 months agoLess than human': Report details Trump immigration detention centre abuses
The report highlighted rampant overcrowding and potentially deadly indifference to medical needs at three immigration detention facilities in Florida, leading to serious human rights concerns.
US politics
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