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Immigrant Detainee Dies in a NJ jail, and a Life Is Buried, Too

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Immigrant Detainee Dies, and a Life Is Buried, Too By NINA BERNSTEIN Published: April 2, 2009 NY Times The hand-scrawled letter from a New Jersey jail was urgent. An immigration detainee had died that day, Sept. 9, 2005, a fellow inmate wrote in broken English, describing chest pains and pleas for medical attention that went unheeded until too late. ?Death ... need to be investigated,? he urged a local group that corresponded with foreigners held for deportation at the jail, the Monmouth County Correctional Institute in Freehold. ?We care very much because that can happen to anyone of us.? Yet like a message in a bottle tossed from a distant shore, even the fact of the detainee?s death was soon swept away. Inquiries by the local group were rebuffed by jail officials...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 04, 2009 (boomark / email).