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Committee member describes 'unsanitary' conditions at Stewart Detention Center, recounts detainee harms
Summary
During opening remarks, a committee member said Stewart Detention Center holds over 1,900 people nightly with unsanitary conditions and substandard medical care, citing individual cases including a detainee who was allegedly sterilized after a procedure without consent.
A committee member said their recent visit to Stewart Detention Center in rural Georgia revealed overcrowding and poor medical care, describing the facility as a "private for profit detention center that incarcerates over 1,900 people every single night with unsanitary conditions, substandard medical care, and severe overcrowding."
The speaker recounted individual instances they said they observed or learned about: a 24-year-old man from Yemen who had been detained for 24 months and arrived bleeding from the mouth after ICE allegedly pulled his tooth rather than providing care, a 72-year-old lawful-permanent-resident applicant arrested at a green-card interview, and a woman the committee member said can no longer conceive after an allegedly nonconsensual medical procedure in detention. The committee member urged the committee to treat these accounts as evidence warranting further inquiry.
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