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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTwo Guards at an ICE Detention Center With a Major Coronavirus Outbreak Have Died
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/04/two-guards-at-an-ice-detention-center-with-a-major-coronavirus-outbreak-have-died/39 mins ago
Two Guards at an ICE Detention Center With a Major Coronavirus Outbreak Have Died
Colleagues say the men died of COVID-19. Test results are pending.
Two guards at Louisianas Richwood Correctional Center, where at least 45 people in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody have tested positive for COVID-19, have died in recent days, according to the local coroners office and colleagues posts on Facebook.
The Ouachita Parish coroners office confirmed both deaths and said that COVID-19 test results are pending. Mother Jones is withholding the mens names to protect their familys privacy.
On Facebook, colleagues mourning the deaths pointed to complications from COVID-19 as the cause of death. We are going through it at Richwood Correctional, one woman wrote. 2 of my coworkers has passed due to COVID-19 and plenty are infected yall keep us in your prayers.
Prayers for my richwood family need as much as they can get right now!!!! a second person posted. In response to a comment asking what happened, he wrote, corona.
Prayers for my richwood family need as much as they can get right now!!!! a second person posted. In response to a comment asking what happened, he wrote, corona.
LaSalle Corrections, the private prison company that runs Richwood, has not responded to multiple requests for comment. ICE spokesperson Bryan Cox referred inquiries to LaSalle Corrections, confirming that the two men are not ICE employees.
Richwood has more confirmed COVID-19 cases among people in detention than all but two of ICEs detention facilities. Across the country, 425 of the 705 people in detention ICE tested had COVID-19, the agency revealed Tuesday. ICEs 60 percent positive test rate is more than three times higher than the national average, further evidence that ICE is not testing many people who are infected.
Public health experts have been warning for more than a month that outbreaks in immigration detention centers were inevitable if ICE refused to use its power to release large numbers of people. ICE largely ignored those recommendations.
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Two Guards at an ICE Detention Center With a Major Coronavirus Outbreak Have Died (Original Post)
babylonsister
Apr 2020
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DBoon
(22,288 posts)1. Do we have any idea how many detainees have died?
or does the Trump administration consider this a state secret?
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)7. Trump was probably in the Soylent Green business before the pandemic.
So, no, he's certainly not going to reveal things like that now.
ck4829
(34,977 posts)2. ICE needs to go
Crunchy Frog
(26,548 posts)3. Looks like some of them already are...
gibraltar72
(7,486 posts)4. It was reported that Federal prisons aren't doing adequate testing.
Rachel reported that prison in Mi. had 705 cases it is about 25 miles from my hot spot. Mi. prisons are testing everyone. Federal prison is not. I assume no federal facility wants true numbers known.
Cal Carpenter
(4,959 posts)5. Amy Goodman has been reporting extensively on ICE facilities and prisons
Democracy Now, available on YouTube and elsewhere.
The Magistrate
(95,237 posts)6. Shame About The People They Cage Getting Infected, Ma'am
babylonsister
(170,964 posts)8. Yes, Sir, beyond shameful. nt