The 19 women were all patients of Dr. Mahendra Amin, the primary gynecologist for the Irwin County Detention Center, the report says. The coalition members are from Project South, the Georgia Latino Alliance for Human Rights, Georgia Detention Watch, the South Georgia Immigrant Support Network, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Southeast Immigrant Freedom Initiative, the American Immigration Lawyers Assn. Her medical records show the procedures were done, but do not include a signed consent. A growing number of women allege medical abuse, including forced sterilizations, at the Irwin County Detention Center in Georgia. According to the report’s authors, as well as the women and their lawyers, several of the women were not given their medical records, which the women and their lawyers characterized as retaliation for their complaints.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 23, 2020 03:52 UTC