These doctors risked their careers to expose the dangers children face in immigrant family detention
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h1.pg-headline { font-weight: 900; } .element-raw h2 { text-align: center; font-size: 1.6em; } Dr. Scott Allen and Dr. Pamela McPherson were used to working behind the scenes, quietly documenting the devastating things they'd seen. Children's fingers crushed by cell doors. A boy who'd lost nearly a third of his body weight in a matter of days. Incorrect vaccine doses and missed diagnoses.Each incident, the doctors say, was meticulously noted in reports they filed with the US Department of Homeland Security. Allen and McPherson -- an internist and a psychiatrist -- are expert consultants contracted by the department's Office of Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
"When you go through that metal detector and those series of locked doors, and then you see children playing and women walking around carrying young children, it's just sort of a surreal experience," McPherson says."I don't think you can experience that without questioning, 'Why are these children in a secure facility? Why are these children in what used to be an adult prison?' It's jarring.
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