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Lawmakers who toured Georgia detention site raise concerns

by Associated Press
| September 27, 2020 12:03 AM

Several members of Congress called for a detention facility in Georgia to be shut down pending investigation after women detainees told them of being forced into unnecessary gynecological procedures with dirty equipment that left serious infections amid conditions so unsanitary that some begged to be deported.

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