U.S. Senate 'Discovers' Medical Neglect in Own Detention Centers
A recent Senate report, led by Sen. Jon Ossoff, details medical neglect in federal immigration detention centers—denied insulin, untreated heart attacks, and competition for clean water. This isn't a new revelation; human rights organizations, immigration lawyers, and countless whistleblowers have documented similar abuses for decades, often met with deafening silence from the very institutions
now 'investigating.' (Perhaps the Senate needed a formal briefing to discover the cruel realities funded by their own budgets.) While Ossoff calls these 'systemic failures,' critics argue this deliberate neglect is a feature, not a bug, of a for-profit detention system designed to deter migration through suffering. The money trails supporting this system rarely get the same spotlight as the
'shocking' findings. How much taxpayer money lines the pockets of private detention corporations while detainees fight for basic healthcare? This AP report, like many, frames these abuses as unfortunate oversights rather than the predictable outcome of an inhumane policy apparatus.