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Union County, NJ, Jail Guards Convicted
Loaded on Aug. 15, 1998
published in Prison Legal News
August, 1998, page 11
In June, 1995, twenty-five political asylum seekers were hauled in chains from a federal INS Detention Center in Elizabeth, NJ, to the nearby Union County Jail. The 25 immigrant detainees many of whom are refugees who escaped religious and political persecution in their home countries were forced by guards to ...
Filed under:
Esmor/CSC,
Guard Misconduct,
Crime/Demographics,
Criminal Prosecution,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Immigration.
Location:
New Jersey.
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