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CCA Detention Centers: For Immigrants Who Died in U.S. Custody, Few Details Provided

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

May 5, 2008 For Immigrants Who Died in U.S. Custody, Few Details Provided By NINA BERNSTEIN NY Times Word spread quickly inside the windowless walls of the Elizabeth Detention Center, an immigration jail in New Jersey: A detainee had fallen, injured his head and become incoherent. Guards had put him in solitary confinement, and late that night, an ambulance had taken him away more dead than alive. But outside, for five days, no official notified the family of the detainee, Boubacar Bah, a 52-year-old tailor from Guinea who had overstayed a tourist visa. When frantic relatives located him at University Hospital in Newark on Feb. 5, 2007, he was in a coma after emergency surgery for a skull fracture and multiple brain hemorrhages. He died there four months later without ever waking up, leaving family members on two continents trying to find out why...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 05, 2008 (boomark / email).