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Ill and in Pain, Detainee Dies in U.S. Hands

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

August 13, 2008 Ill and in Pain, Detainee Dies in U.S. Hands By NINA BERNSTEIN NY Times He was 17 when he came to New York from Hong Kong in 1992 with his parents and younger sister, eyeing the skyline like any newcomer. Fifteen years later, Hiu Lui Ng was a New Yorker: a computer engineer with a job in the Empire State Building, a house in Queens, a wife who is a United States citizen and two American-born sons. But when Mr. Ng, who had overstayed a visa years earlier, went to immigration headquarters in Manhattan last summer for his final interview for a green card, he was swept into immigration detention and shuttled through jails and detention centers in three New England states. In April, Mr. Ng began complaining of excruciating back pain...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 14, 2008 (boomark / email).