Yesterday, the NY Times published a fantastic article about the state of immigration detention centers and the need to investigate the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency. Between January 2004 and November 2007, 66 detainees have died under questionable circumstances (this is more than have died at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo combined).
The piece mostly centers around the story of Boubacar Bah, a 52-year-old immigrant from Guinea who overstayed his tourist visa and was living in the U.S.:
[F]or five days, no official notified [Bah's family]. When frantic relatives located him at University Hospital in Newark on Feb. 5, 2007, he was in a coma after emergency surgery for a skull fracture and multiple brain hemorrhages. He died there four months later without ever waking up, leaving family members on two continents trying to find out why[...]
