U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock met with city leaders on Monday in Social Circle to hear the city's concern about a planned ICE detention center there — and see the aging infrastructure that cannot handle the extra load to keep drinking water safe.
On the Feb 25th edition: The Department of Homeland Security has purchased a second Georgia warehouse as part of its nationwide revamp of immigration detention; A cell phone ban in Georgia's high schools is one step closer to becoming law; And a $5 billion data center is being planned for the Columbus area.
Hunger strikers held in solitary confinement. Catholic and Muslim detainees denied access to chaplains. Medical staff acted “beyond safe limits” and contributed to the death of an Indian national.
The doctor at the center of a whistleblower complaint against a detention center in South Georgia allegedly used his bare hands to conduct unwanted, invasive gynecological exams, according to members of Congress who toured the facility Saturday.
Three Georgia-based Democratic Congress members signed a U.S. House Resolution on Friday condemning numerous reports of unnecessary medical procedures — including hysterectomies — being performed on immigrant women without their consent at the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla.
If you watched this year's Grammy awards show, it was not a night of the usual suspects. The show performances and winners showed a lot more diversity...
