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October 3, 2019

Cameroonian Asylum Seeker Dies in For-Profit Immigration Jail
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In California, a 37-year-old immigrant from Cameroon died Tuesday after
he fell ill in an ICE prison. In a statement, ICE said the man, Nebane
Abienwi, became partially paralyzed after suffering a brain hemorrhage
in the middle of the night at the Otay Mesa Detention Center. ICE says
he was rushed to a San Diego hospital but died after undergoing
treatment. The immigration jail is operated by Core Civic, a for-profit
prison corporation. In a statement, Lizbeth Abeln of the Inland
Coalition for Immigrant Justice said, "The ongoing loss of life in
immigration detention is not only heartbreaking, it's infuriating. There
is a bill sitting on Gov. Gavin Newsom's desk right now waiting to be
signed that would ban private detention, like Otay, from [California].
People in detention cannot afford to be behind bars a second longer,
Newsom needs to sign now." Later in the broadcast, we'll have more on
the campaign to end for-profit prisons here in California.


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