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NY Times Editorial: Death by Detention in CCA Prison

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

May 6, 2008 Editorial, NY Times Death by Detention A chilling article by Nina Bernstein in The Times on Monday recounted the secrecy, neglect and lack of oversight that are a few of the shameful symptoms of the booming sector of the nation?s prison industry ? the detention of undocumented foreigners. Ms. Bernstein chronicled the death of Boubacar Bah, a tailor from Guinea who was imprisoned in New Jersey for overstaying a tourist visa. He fell and fractured his skull in the Elizabeth Detention Center early last year. Though clearly gravely injured, Mr. Bah was shackled and taken to a disciplinary cell. He was left alone ? unconscious and occasionally foaming at the mouth ? for more than 13 hours. He was eventually taken to the hospital and died after four months in a coma...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on May 07, 2008 (boomark / email).