ICE Locks Down Facility as Women Protest Handling of Possible Tuberculosis Case

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ICE Locks Down Facility as Women Protest Handling of Possible Tuberculosis Case

Women detained at the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Basile, Louisiana, have been put on a communications lockdown after internal protests in response to a possible case of tuberculosis among the detained population, a lack of prompt medical treatment, and poor communication about their immigration cases.Six women at the private immigration facility, which is run by the prison conglomerate GEO Group on behalf of U.S. Immigration and Cu…