Disabled people detained by Ice sound alarm over overcrowded jails | US immigration - Corruption By Cops

Disabled people are the world's largest marginalised group of people and are at the same time least respected. The Global Disability Summit is a step to change this – locally, nationally and internationally. For all people.

Disabled people detained by Ice sound alarm over overcrowded jails | US immigration - Corruption By Cops

In his three months locked up at Stewart detention center in Lumpkin, Georgia, Rodney Taylor has missed meals and showers, lived with increasing pain in his hips, developed a swollen thumb on his right hand and blisters on the stumps where his two legs were amputated when he was a toddler. Taylor’s mother brought him to the US from Liberia on a medical visa as a small child. He went through 16 operations and is a double amputee. He has two finge…