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A recent report from Human Rights Watch highlights the inadequate health care received by the more than 300,000 immigrant detainees in jails, prisons, and detention centers around the country. You can read the full report here.
The report focuses mostly on HIV positive detainees, spurred by the death of 23 year-old Victoria Arellano, who died of complications due to lack of treatment for HIV while in ICE custody this July, but HIV isn't the only ailment left untreated by immigrations detention centers' staffs in recent months. (Need more examples? Check here or here.
Some anecdotal evidence supplied by the support:
Charles B., a Lawful Permanent Resident from Jamaica, became resistant to 13 leading AIDS drugs during more than four years in immigration custody;
Anna F., a 61-year-old woman born in Germany, failed to receive medically indicated treatment to prevent pneumonia;
Peter R., a pharmacist by profession, received a complete dosage of AIDS medication in immigration custody only 65 percent of the time, leaving him at risk of developing resistance to the drugs he depends on for survival.
Jean P., fleeing violent persecution in Haiti, has an AIDS-related condition that left him blind in one eye, yet this condition is inadequately monitored in immigration detention;
Gloria M., an AIDS counselor in Chicago, was told by jail officials that "the state won’t pay" for her HIV medications.