ATLANTA — Dawn Wooten is bracing herself for a lackluster Christmas. Short on money, the Tifton resident knows she will be unable to give her two youngest boys — ages 10 and 11 — a celebration filled with as many presents as in years past.
“That does not feel good as a parent,” she said earlier this week. “It’s to the point where I put up a tree, but I have not brought myself to decorate it. And Christmas is on Sunday.”
In 2020, Wooten put Georgia immigration detention front and center of the national consciousness, when she came forward with explosive allegations of medical malpractice and abuse at a since-shuttered immigrant jail in Ocilla. The 45-year-old worked there as a nurse. Her whistleblower report sparked lawsuits and investigations — a legacy Wooten feels vindicated by.
