Buffalo’s Batavia ICE Prison Dogged by Allegations of Shoddy Medical Care

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and staff have administered what experts said was shoddy medical treatment to at least a dozen detainees at its Batavia, New York, facility in the past two years, according to the findings of a new investigation.

Serious injuries went untreated, medications were denied or scaled back, and needed medical appointments were delayed at the ICE detention center, the state’s largest, located near Buffalo.

In one case, a Nigerian migrant arrived in February at the Batavia ICE detention facility suffering frostbite. A doctor who provided emergency care ordered that he see a specialist within a week before releasing him into ICE’s custody. Agents in Batavia never took him to the appointment. By the time he saw a doctor, it was too late to save his