'I cannot take the pain any longer,' said a 42-year-old immigrant detainee.
A year after immigrant advocates made US authorities aware of poor medical and mental healthcare at a Colorado detention facility conditions have only gotten worse, according to aThe new administrative complaint obtained by BuzzFeed News was submitted to ICE and the Department of Homeland Security's Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties and Office of the Inspector General.
"The government has failed to provide adequate medical care and the result is the suffering and death that occurs inside ICE detention centers," Shepherd told BuzzFeed News."If they're going to keep tens of thousands of people in their custody at any one time then they need to humanely and responsibly provide the services necessary for those in their care."
Despite the expansion, ICE's Health Service Corps, which provides medical care to detainees, continues to only contract one physician on staff at any one time to oversee the hundreds of people detained at the Denver Contract Detention Facility.
"According to Omar, the nurse informed him that he was receiving fewer pills because they ran out of the medication he is supposed to receive," the complaint said. A transgender woman, who is being held in a men's dorm at the Aurora facility and faces repeat sexual harassment, hasn't been given the hormone medication since January that she had been taking for eight years. According to the complaint she is depressed and feels hopeless.
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