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’We don’t feel OK here’: Detainee deaths, #suicide attempts and hunger strikes plague California immigration facility
Located in the high desert 85 miles northeast of Los Angeles, the #Adelanto Detention Facility can house nearly 2,000 men and women. Officials say more than 73,000 detainees have passed through since it opened in 2011.
▻http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-adelanto-detention-20170808-story.html?platform=hootsuite
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IACHR Expresses Deep Concern for Deaths and Detention Conditions at Migrant Detention Centers in the United States
The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) expresses deep concern for the deaths of ten migrant persons detained under custody of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement authorities, which occurred during the 2017 fiscal year, which commenced on October 1, 2016 and is due to end on September 30, 2017. The IACHR urges the Government of the United States to undertake a serious and impartial investigation regarding these deaths, including the detention conditions of migrant persons under its custody.
The most recent of these deaths is the one of Rolando Meza Espinoza, a Honduran national who was detained by ICE in April of this year and passed away under its custody on June 10, as a consequence of a series of health issues that were not treated appropriately by the U.S. migration authorities, according to public sources. Based on official information, among the 10 migrant persons who have died throughout the fiscal year 2017, 2 were from Honduras, 1 from Brazil, 1 from Guatemala, 1 from Jamaica, 1 from Mexico, 1 from Nicaragua, 1 from Panama, 1 from India, and 1 from the United Kingdom. These deaths equal the number of deaths of migrant persons under custody of ICE which took place during the fiscal year 2016, which were the most numerous in the last five years. Most of the deaths occurring in the fiscal year 2017 have been as a result of medical issues and one case of suicide of a person while in solitary confinement. The Commission observes with concern that this last suicide brings the number to 6 with the other cases of suicide which have occurred during the last 5 years.
▻http://www.oas.org/en/iachr/media_center/PReleases/2017/119.asp
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