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Suicides at CCA-run ICE Detention Center Spark Investigation
Loaded on Aug. 15, 2013
by Derek Gilna
published in Prison Legal News
August, 2013, page 46
Human rights organizations monitoring complaints regarding conditions of confinement for prisoners held in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities were likely not surprised when they received news that two detainees had committed suicide at the Eloy Detention Center outside Phoenix, Arizona. The April 2013 deaths of Jorge Garcia-Mejia, 40, and ...
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Private Prisons,
Corrections Corporation of America/CoreCivic,
Prisoners-International,
Immigration,
Suicides.
Location:
Arizona.
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