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mr40, Immigration detention deaths reach the highest total since 2009
Jeanne Kuang, Special to the Houston Chronicle
January 12, 2018 Updated: January 16, 2018 12:22pm
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Immigration-detention-deaths-reach-the-highest-12494624.php?utm_campaign=chron&utm_source=article&utm_medium=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chron.com%2Fnews%2Fnation-world%2Farticle%2FImmigration-detention-deaths-were-up-in-FY-2017-12499129.php

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Deadly Detention: ICE and the Troubling Suicide of Immigrant JeanCarlo Jimenez
Co-published by International Business Times
A Capital & Main examination of Georgia’s Stewart Detention Center reveals new details about events surrounding the suicide of a young
detainee, plus an interactive map providing information about each of the 179 immigrant detainees who have died in custody since 2003.
Published on March 14, 2018
By Capital & Main
Stewart Outer


Photo: Robin Urevich

In her latest coverage of America’s expansive network of immigrant detention centers, Robin Urevich reports on the fateful story of JeanCarlo Jimenez Joseph, an artistic 27-year-old who got sucked into the deportation machine of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Like many undocumented detainees who arrived in the U.S. as children, and now find themselves awaiting expulsion from the nation that raised them, Jimenez felt no connection to his birth country, Panama. In fact, he found the prospect of returning there “scary.” He was also haunted by other, more formidable demons, displaying signs of mental illness before his incarceration, which may have led to his suicide last year in Georgia’s Stewart Detention Center.

https://capitalandmain.com/deadly-detention-ice-and-the-troubling-suicide-of-immigrant-jeancarlo-jimenez-0314

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Investigation finds ICE detention center cut corners and skirted federal detention rules
PRI's The World
March 15, 2018 · 1:15 PM EDT
By Robin Urevich
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The probe disclosed that Jimenez repeatedly displayed suicidal behavior, but never got the mental health care he needed. He was also placed in a cell that contained a known suicide hazard, a ceiling sprinkler head, upon which he affixed his makeshift noose. Freddy Wims was assigned to check Jimenez’s cell every half hour, but didn’t do so. Instead, he falsified his logs to make it appear he had, and he was later fired. Stewart’s warden, Bill Spivey, retired after Jimenez’s death; a CoreCivic spokesman told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that the two events were unrelated. Spivey couldn’t be reached for comment for this article.

CoreCivic’s spokesman, Jonathan Burns, didn’t respond to questions about Jimenez’s death and detention. Instead, he wrote in an email, “CoreCivic is deeply committed to providing a safe, humane and appropriate environment for those entrusted to our care, while also delivering cost-effective solutions to the challenges our government partners face.” ICE spokeswoman Tamara Spicer wrote in an email that she couldn’t answer questions about the case because it is “still undergoing a comprehensive review that has not been released.”

Jimenez had been in solitary for 19 days at the time of his death — punishment for what his sister would tell investigators was an earlier suicide attempt.
https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-03-15/investigation-finds-ice-detention-center-cuts-corners-and-skirted-federal

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Deaths at Adult Detention Centers
AILA Doc. No. 16050900 | Dated May 25, 2018
http://www.aila.org/infonet/deaths-at-adult-detention-centers