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ICE Detention Facility Deaths Now Highest Since 2005
Loaded on March 1, 2021
by Kevin Bliss
published in Prison Legal News
March, 2021, page 44
Filed under:
COVID-19,
Overcrowding,
Medical Neglect/Malpractice,
Detention - Generally.
Location:
Georgia.
by Kevin Bliss
The number of people who died in federal Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) detention centers during its fiscal year that ended September 30, 2020 — 21 in all — was more than double the previous years’s total, according to a recent report by the Vera …
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