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August 18, 2009

ICE Acknowledges Deaths of More Immigrant Detainees
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The Obama administration has acknowledged more more than one in ten
deaths in immigration detention in the last six years have been
overlooked and were omitted from an official list of detainee fatalities
issued to Congress in March. Earlier this year, Immigration and Customs
Enforcement officials told Congress that ninety immigrant detainees had
died in US custody since October 2003. But yesterday the government
added ten previously unreported deaths to the official roster. In
addition, the government revealed a twenty-four-year-old Ethiopian man
had died on Friday after trying to commit suicide in the Wakulla County
correctional facility near Tallahassee, Florida.



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