A suit filed by the A.C.L.U. accuses ICE jailers of denying detainees vaccines 

This article excerpt features Government Accountability Project’s whistleblower clients, Drs. Scott Allen and Josiah “Jody” Rich, and was originally published here.

“People with health conditions that place them at high risk from Covid-19 have been denied access to coronavirus vaccine booster shots while in federal immigration detention, the American Civil Liberties Union said in a lawsuit filed on Tuesday.

The suit was filed on behalf of four people held in immigration detention who have kidney disease, H.I.V. or other conditions, and names ICE and the agency’s acting director, Tae Johnson, as well as the Department of Homeland Security and its secretary, Alejandro N. Mayorkas.

In January, two doctors who inspect immigration detention centers for the Department of Homeland Security’s Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties, Scott Allen and Josiah Rich, wrote a letter to the heads of ICE and the Department of Homeland Security urging their agencies to provide booster shots to detainees.”