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BOSTON GLOBE: Unwanted surgeries raise questions about private detention centres
Last weekend Mexico’s foreign ministry announced it had identified two migrant women who may have received unwanted surgeries while in detention at a US immigration facility in Ocilla, Georgia.
In a comprehensive investigation published in September, The New York Times documented several cases of invasive gynaecological surgeries — short of hysterectomy — that might have been unwarranted, or performed without the detainee’s consent or full understanding. The paper interviewed more than a dozen women who were worried about the gynaecological care they received while at the facility, which is managed by a private company through a government contract...
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