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    Westword: There’s Just One Medical Doctor at Immigration Detention Facility in Aurora

    Westword: There’s Just One Medical Doctor at Immigration Detention Facility in Aurora
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    Credit: Kenzie Bruce

    “Good luck.”

    That’s all a medical staff member said to a detainee at the immigration detention facility in Aurora when he tried to get an appointment with the staff physician in February. The detainee, who has “significant, ongoing medical issues,” according to his attorney, first sent a written request to the detention center’s staff about seeing a doctor, then followed up in person, all to no avail.

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