Human Rights Watch finds pervasive abuse in ICE detention centers,including repeated strip-searches, despite efforts to protect vulnerable populationTransgender inmates detained in US immigration facilities are at tall risk of being sexually assaulted, or repeatedly strip-searched and held indefinitely in solitary confinement,according to a study released on Wednesday by the advocacy group Human Rights Watch.
Abuse in ICE facilities abounds, said Adam Frankel, and coordinator of the organization’s lesbian,gay, bisexual and transgender program, and even though US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) created a dedicated housing unit for transgender detainees in 2011 in Santa Ana,California, and drafted unique guidelines final June for dealing with the vulnerable population.
Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com