Detainees Routinely Tortured In ‘Abusive’ US Migrant Jail

 

At the Stewart Detention Center (SDC) in Georgia, a state in the southeast of the United States, over 200 inmates had experienced violence, abuse, and torture. They recently voiced their opposition to the everyday abuse and cruel conditions they experienced at the prison facility.

In a recent appeal to local government representatives and the Joe Biden administration, detainees at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, said they had suffered severe mistreatment in the migrant detention facility.

Sopheak Pal, an SDC prisoner, spearheaded the petition, which called for a quick end to the detainees’ mistreatment. The Guardian was informed by Sopheak Pal that “we’re treated worse than criminals.” We should all be treated like humans since this environment and the way people treat us are both terrible.

Recent stories about the incarceration, assault, torture, and sexual abuse of migrants have focused on Stewart Detention Center, a private prison run by Corrections Corporation of America under contract with US Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Because of the detention facility’s lack of medical care, one migrant detainee lost over half of his vision. According to Jeff Migliozzi, senior communications manager for Freedom for Immigrants, detainees were mistreated at the migrant center. Lack of access to healthcare also claimed the lives of many refugees.

“Stewart is one of the deadliest detention facilities in the nation,” he declared.

The cycle of violence was maintained by the detainees at Stewart Detention Center, which was largely utilized to house immigrant detainees. This led to a covert pandemic that endangered the physical well-being of migrants.