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John,
Detention centers and jails are perfect incubators for viruses to spread, and T. Don Hutto is no exception. I’m writing to share with you what one woman recently released from T. Don Hutto told us: there’s now at least six active COVID-19 cases, and ICE isn’t reporting them.
Check out this video and hear in her own words what’s been happening inside T. Don Hutto during a pandemic.
“I need you to please help [the women detained at T. Don Hutto]. I strongly ask that you send someone there to investigate very, very thoroughly because there’s something very, very grave happening in there. There are six women infected now, and I am afraid for the women inside.”
Last month, a San Antonio news outlet reported at the time that all 10 positive COVID-19 cases in Frio County could be traced back to the South Texas Processing Center in Pearsall, Texas. We suspect that a similar situation has already been happening for weeks in Taylor, with COVID-19 cases being traced back to T. Don Hutto.
ICE is hiding COVID-19 cases from the public, and we want to know why. Their silence is placing communities in Taylor, Texas at risk, and because of ICE and CoreCivic’s lack of transparency, we don’t know if there is testing being done of women detained and the employees.
Not only that, ICE is still refusing to release many medically vulnerable people still detained despite an order from a federal judge directing ICE to consider the release of all detained immigrants that have a high risk of complications from COVID-19 infections.
Detention is deadly, even more so during a pandemic. Can you help make a call to Taylor local officials and demand intervention with ICE to ensure the women are tested and released?
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