ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) - New investigations are raising fresh concerns about conditions for Georgians in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody, with families describing treatment they call dangerous and even deadly.

For Mildred Pierre, the issue is personal.

Just days after she got engaged, her fiancé, Rodney Taylor, was taken into ICE custody.

Taylor, a barber and double amputee, is now being held at the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin. ICE said his detention stems from a burglary conviction when he was 19. His attorney points out that Taylor was pardoned more than a decade ago.

“They go in alive, and some of them come out in a box,” Pierre said.

Pierre said her fiancé has struggled to get basic medical care and equipment to charge his prosthetics. She

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