Lawyers with the American Civil Liberties Union in Atlanta and Washington, D.C., called late Friday for closing the Georgia immigration detention facility accused in a federal whistleblower complaint last week of forcing hysterectomies and other sterilization procedures on women being held there.

The whistleblower complaint was filed by a nurse who worked at Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia. She alleged that women being held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention had hysterectomies and other procedures that would make them sterile forced on them, to the point that the accused doctor was called “the uterus collector.” The complaint was filed by attorneys with Project South: Institute for Elimination of Poverty and Genocide. The 27-page document detailed unsanitary, unsafe and inhumane conditions and failure to respond to health concerns about and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic.