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Ill Treatment on Our Shores
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2002
by Anne-Marie Cusac
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2002, page 8
( On October 24, 2001, Muhammed Butt died of a heart attack at the Hudson County Correctional Center in Kearny, New Jersey. Butt, a Pakistani national, was detained on September 19 by the FBI as a suspect connected with the September 11 attacks. He was then transferred to the Immigration ...
Filed under:
Discrimination,
Political Prisoners,
Racial Discrimination,
Religious Discrimination,
Cardiovascular,
Failure to Protect (General),
Exposure to Cold,
Jail Specific,
Guard Brutality/Beatings,
Immigration,
Medical Neglect/Malpractice.
Locations:
Mississippi,
North Carolina,
New Jersey,
New York.
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- From the Editor, by Paul Wright
- Ill Treatment on Our Shores, by Anne-Marie Cusac
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