COVID continues to infect detainees, employees at ICE immigration detention center
Aug. 23—New COVID-19 cases are continuing to emerge at an immigrant detention center in Tacoma where the virus has infected 240 detainees and employees since June.
The infection numbers at the Northwest Detention Center near the Tacoma Tideflats are according to a lawyer who is monitoring court-ordered government notices of COVID-19 cases at the center. Monday's numbers are an increase of about 90 cases since Aug. 12.
Aaron Korthuis, a staff attorney with the Northwest Immigrant Rights project is monitoring cases at the NWDC. Of the 240 total cases, he said five detainees have been hospitalized. He said 23 cases have been among employees at the center.
The surge came in June when the federal government transferred nearly 1,100 immigrants to the detention center to try to relieve overcrowding at holding facilities at the southern border, according to the Associated Press.
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