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Nurse questions medical care at immigration jail in Georgia
File photo of federal immigration detention facility. OCILLA, Ga. - An immigration detention center in Georgia performed questionable hysterectomies, refused to test detainees for COVID-19 and shredded medical records, according to a nurse quoted in a complaint filed Monday. The complaint to the Homeland Security Department's internal watchdog relies on accounts of Dawn Wooten, who worked full-time as a licensed practical nurse at the Irwin County Detention Center until July, when she was demoted to work as needed. Wooten calls a gynecologist who works outside the facility "the uterus collector." "Everybody he sees has a hysterectomy -- just about everybody," Wooten said.