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Cancer-Stricken 34-Year-Old Chinese Computer Engineer Dies After Being Denied Care in Private US Immigration Prison

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Cancer-Stricken 34-Year-Old Chinese Computer Engineer Dies After Being Denied Care in Private US Immigration Prison Democracy Now 8-19-08. You can listen to the interview or read the transcript at this URL. http://www.democracynow.org/2008/8/19/35_year_old_immigrant_detainee_dies Earlier this month, a thirty-four-year-old Chinese computer engineer, Hiu Lui Ng, who overstayed his visa, died in a Rhode Island immigration detention center. He had cancer in his liver, lung and bones, and a fractured spine. Despite repeated complaints of severe pain, Mr. Ng was refused independent medical evaluation by immigration officials. Before Mr. Ng died on August 6th, he told his sister that the nurses at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Center in Rhode Island had told him to ?stop faking? his illness...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on August 19, 2008 (boomark / email).