Former ICE Worker Says Women Detainees Were Given Diapers Instead of Sanitary Products

Jezebel reports on a former ICE employee’s allegations of inhumane conditions at an ICE detention center in Baltimore, Maryland:

It’s become impossible to overstate the human costs of Trump’s vicious deportation campaign. ICE has literally caged people, fed them inedible slop, and shackled those who were pregnant or miscarrying. A new report reveals still more grotesque and systemic human rights violations.

At the end of January, a video from inside an ICE facility in Baltimore, Maryland, went viral for its cramped conditions. A former ICE employee at the detention center recently spoke to WUSA9 to say the video was not only “100% real,” but just the tip of the iceberg.

“These accounts raise grave concerns about the conditions detained immigrants are enduring,” Zain Lakhani, the Director of Migrant Rights and Justice at Women’s Refugee Commission, told Jezebel. “[WRC] is tracking numerous reports of pregnant and postpartum women being denied sufficient food, water, and basic medical care, resulting in devastating outcomes, including miscarriages while in custody. This most recent documented treatment further reveals how the dignity and health of women are neglected in detention.”