PHILADELPHIA — U.S. Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon was denied entry on Wednesday from the ICE facility in Pennsylvania where a detainee was found hanging by his neck earlier this month.

The Delaware County Democrat’s blocked entry from the Moshannon Valley Processing Center, a privately run federal detention center in Clearfield County, came just two days after U.S. Rep. Summer Lee, a Pittsburgh Democrat, was also prohibited from entering the site.

Both lawmakers said they waited about an hour at the center before being turned away.

“As we continue to hear stories of inhumane conditions within this facility and others across the country, and see evidence that the vast majority of those detained have no criminal records, it is our duty as federal representatives to shed light on how taxpayer doll

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