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VA: Death in another ICE jail

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

"The parallels with detainee accounts of Mr. Newbrough?s treatment are striking to Jeff Winder, an organizer for the grass-roots Virginia group People United, who was contacted by several inmates at Piedmont who also spoke to a reporter. The latest death has heightened the group?s opposition to plans by private developers and city officials to build another immigration detention center in Farmville, with 1,000 to 2,500 beds." ?ICE has no obligation to send detainees there after the next detainee dies,? Mr. Winder said. ?Farmville could be left with the reputation as a place where detainees die of medical neglect.? January 28, 2009 Another Jail Death, and Mounting Questions By NINA BERNSTEIN New York Times He lived 42 of his 48 years in the United States, and had the words ?Raised American? tattooed on his shoulder...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on January 28, 2009 (boomark / email).