InvestigationImmigration, Journalism The Facility A new documentary goes inside Georgia’s Irwin County Detention Center as the pandemic spreads Seth Freed WesslerField of VisionDecember 2, 2021
BackstoryHealth, Immigration, Justice Q&A with Seth Freed Wessler Type Investigations reporting fellow Seth Freed Wessler discusses the background and implications of his reporting on unnecessary treatments in a Georgia detention center. Seth Freed WesslerDecember 4, 2020
InvestigationHealth, Immigration, Justice Immigrants Say They Were Pressured Into Unneeded Surgeries Immigrants detained at an ICE-contracted center in Georgia said they had invasive gynecology procedures that they later learned might have been unnecessary. Caitlin Dickerson, Seth Freed Wessler & Miriam JordanThe New York TimesSeptember 29, 2020
InvestigationPolitics Monumental Lies: Update Civil War-era myths are kept alive at Confederate monuments with stories of “benevolent slave owners” and enslaved people “contented with their lot.” Brian Palmer & Seth Freed WesslerRevealAugust 15, 2020
InvestigationImmigration, Justice, Politics Cold as ICE How local sheriffs are driving Trump's deportation agenda. Seth Freed WesslerMother JonesAugust 10, 2020
InvestigationHealth, Immigration, Justice Fear, Illness and Death in ICE Detention: How a Protest Grew on the Inside Detained men and women held at a facility in Georgia are trying desperately to raise the alarm. Seth Freed WesslerNew York Times MagazineJune 4, 2020
InvestigationHealth, Immigration, Justice Immigrant Detainees Stage Protest For More COVID-19 Protections: ‘WE ARE NOT SAFE’ People being held at a center in Georgia want vulnerable individuals released and better safeguards against infection. Seth Freed WesslerHuffPostApril 14, 2020
InvestigationHealth, Immigration, Justice ‘I Can’t Do Anything’: Doctor Detained By ICE Waits For Coronavirus Outbreak To Hit Neysi Salvador-Aguiar, a physician from Cuba, says that the Irwin County detention center wasn’t taking enough measures to prevent the spread of the virus. Seth Freed WesslerHuffPostApril 9, 2020
NewsHealth, Justice “My Father Was the First Federal Prisoner to Die of COVID-19. He’d Been Trying to Get Out for Years.” “It’s kind of cold. It’s not a way to live your life, for your life to end that way.” Seth Freed WesslerMother JonesApril 7, 2020
InvestigationHealth, Immigration, Justice The Coronavirus Has Spread to the US Marshals’ Detention Empire Exclusive reporting reveals five people in federal detention have tested positive for COVID-19. Seth Freed WesslerMother JonesApril 1, 2020