Dawn Wooten, a former nurse at an ICE Detention Center in South Georgia, reported that a doctor working for the center was sterilizing women without their consent or even their knowledge. Wooten’s a former nurse because after becoming a whistleblower, this mother of five lost her job.
January 29, 2024 DHS Audit Finds Alarming Rates of Unnecessary Major Surgeries in ICE Custody Whistleblower Dawn Wooten’s Disclosures and Noncitizen Women Survivors’ Testimonials Prompt Investigation Finding Widespread Fraud, Waste and Abuse WASHINGTON – We applaud the critical findings of the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General (DHS OIG) audit released last [...]
Today, nurse and whistleblower Dawn Wooten tells her story on the new podcast “The Whistleblowers: Inside the Trump Administration.”
iHeartPodcasts series "The Whistleblowers: Inside the Trump Administration," will be launching alongside Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy from the Next Trump, the new book by Miles Taylor, best-selling author and former Trump administration official who authored the anonymous NYT op-ed.
Miles Taylor, the former chief of staff of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, who gained notoriety in 2019 after he admitted he was behind an anonymous opinion piece in the New York Times about the innerworkings of the Trump administration, is now bringing his story to podcasting.
Medicine at Brown: Moral Authority This article features Government Accountability Project clients, Drs. Scott Allen and Pam McPherson, and was originally published here.Two physicians with a record of calling out medical wrongdoing question why more doctors don’t.In 2014, internist Scott Allen MD’91 RES’94 was working as a consultant for the Office for Civil Rights and [...]
Full Measure: Dawn Wooten This article features Government Accountability Project whistleblower client, Dawn Wooten, and was originally published here. We begin today with an interview with a remarkable woman: a whistleblower who exposed alleged medical abuses of prisoners that evoke images of another era when women deemed to be "unfit" for whatever reason were [...]
Sharyl Attkisson: Women Illegal Immigrant Inmates Sterilized Without Consent (Podcast) This article features Government Accountability Project's whistleblower client, Dawn Wooten, and was originally published here. Dawn Wooten is a nurse-turned-whistleblower and tells about a house of horrors where she says women illegal immigrant inmates were operated on and even sterilized without their consent. Listen [...]
Irwin County Detention Center Whistleblower Dawn Wooten Files New Complaint Alleging Retaliation This article features Government Accountability Project whistleblower client, Dawn Wooten, and was originally published here. Dawn Wooten, a nurse who blew the whistle and alleged widespread medical neglect at an immigration detention center in 2020, filed a new complaint alleging that she was retaliated [...]
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Georgia ICE Whistleblower Files Suit Against Private Prison Company This article features Government Accountability Project whistleblower client, Dawn Wooten, and was originally published here. A whistleblower who came forward with explosive allegations of medical abuse at a since shuttered immigrant jail in Ocilla is suing the private prison company that ran [...]