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: Greg Siskind's BlogTOP DHS OFFICIAL TO MEET HUNGER STRIKERS IN NEW ORLEANS
By Greg Siskind
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From a press release from the New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice: Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has dispatched her top detention advisor to Basile, Louisiana to meet with detainees who have monitored conditions and staged hunger strikes in the isolated ICE detention center during the last month. Dora Schriro, Director of the newly created Office of Detention Policy and Planning, is on her way to the South Louisiana Corrections Center now. Meanwhile, detainee Edgar Nelson Bojorge Alcantara entered his sixth day on hunger strike today. He and other detainees in the facility have held five hunger strikes...Full post as published by Greg Siskind's Blog on August 07, 2009 (boomark / email).
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