Originally published on December 22, 2020 10:36 pm
One former detainee says she was already in a hospital gown this past July, waiting to be wheeled into surgery, when she began to suspect something was very wrong. Jaromy Floriano Navarro thought she was getting an operation to remove a cyst on her ovary until the driver who brought her to the hospital said otherwise. She was just like, You know you re having a hysterectomy, right? Floriano tells NPR in an interview. And I was in shock, because I knew what that meant.
Floriano is one of more than 30 undocumented immigrants who ve come forward with allegations of medical abuse, according to court papers filed late Monday all of them current or former detainees at the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Ga. Many of the women say that they were pressured to have unwanted or unnecessary gynecological procedures while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement or that they were retaliated against for sp
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The best journalism of 2020: Covering racial justice
This year, many news outlets covered widespread opposition to racism and police brutality from the knee–jerk responses to the more substantive efforts with a newfound urgency. They also grappled with their own legacies, applying a critical lens to their pasts, locating the same rotten systems at play in their archives a process that has helped surface critical, long-suppressed conversations. Driving the industry’s confrontations with racism and other forms of institutional discrimination are BIPOC and movement journalists, working in tandem with communities that have long been trivialized in the news.
What is your organization doing to challenge white supremacy and oppression? As the press increasingly recognizes its own culpability and struggles to counteract decades of systemic mistreatment, the stories below, among many more, help show the way forward.