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U.S. Issues Scathing Report on Immigrant Who Died in Detention

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

January 16, 2009 U.S. Issues Scathing Report on Immigrant Who Died in Detention By NINA BERNSTEIN 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. As they disclosed their findings, Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials ordered an end to their contract with the center, the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls, R.I., a locally owned jail where the engineer, Hiu Lui Ng, spent his final month after a year in immigration detention...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 16, 2009 (boomark / email).