Jon Ossoff

You know, so I've led investigations of corruption and civil rights abuses in federal prisons.

of uncounted deaths in state and local prisons and jails.

One investigation from two or three years ago, it was a bipartisan investigation where the ranking member on the Subcommittee of LA was Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, not exactly a fellow traveler ideologically, right?

But I got him to work with me on an investigation into an ICE detention facility in Georgia where we found, and it was a bipartisan finding,

that multiple female immigration detainees at this facility had been subjected to unnecessary, invasive, and in some cases, non-consensual gynecological surgical procedures while in US detention.

Surgical procedures?

Surgical procedures.

Jesus Christ.

So I say all that to say that my efforts to investigate human rights abuses in prisons, jails, and detention facilities is not new.

This year, I opened a new inquiry anticipating that there would be an even higher level of brutality by this administration in these facilities.

Uh, and what we had found through July was more than 500 credible reports of human rights abuses in DHS detention facilities, including of pregnant women, children, some of whom were us citizens.

And the last thing I'll just say about this, because I think it just speaks to like the character of this administration is I released that report within like 90 minutes.

The administration just issued a blanket denial and basically said everything is fine in all of our facilities.

And this is all lies.

No, I mean, it's, it's just deny, deny, deny.

They do not care.

Um, and I, you know, it, it really saddens me to say it, but I think that there are some folks in this administration and at this white house who, um,

relish the brutality of the system they're creating.

No, there is to date zero pressure.

And the reality is that the slow motion annexation of the West Bank