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Immigrant Deaths in Detention

By Michael Blankenship

NY Times - Federal immigration officials investigating the death of a New York computer engineer from China who died in their custody last summer said Thursday that supervisors at a Rhode Island detention center had denied the ailing man appropriate medical treatment on multiple occasions and that employees had dragged him from his cell to a van as he screamed in pain.Read more....This case illustrates the treatment many people are receiving while in prison, jail, or deportation facilities around the country. Numerous cases of abuse have been documented. Contributing factors include crowding, lack of funding for medical facilities and treatment, negligent supervision, training, discipline, and hiring. Are these cases what the U.. wants to be known for at home and abroad?The Idaho Department of Corrections has its own problems, including an inmate disturbance and inmate deaths while incarcerated in for-profit prisons...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Justice Gambit on January 16, 2009 (boomark / email).