Deaths of 3 ICE Detainees Prompt Questions About Medical Care
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Immigrants at Delaney Hall in Newark have complained about health services. Federal officials defended the treatment provided there and elsewhere.
Listen · 8:30 min Share full article The treatment of detainees at the Delaney Hall center in Newark has come under scrutiny. Credit... Todd Heisler/The New York Times By Luis Ferré-Sadurní and Ana Ley
A 41-year-old immigrant from Haiti died after suffering a medical emergency within hours of arriving at Delaney Hall, a troubled, privately run immigration detention center in New Jersey.
Months later, a Delaney detainee from Guatemala had what appeared to be a seizure and died after being transported to a hospital, federal officials said on Wednesday. And earlier this month, a man from El Salvador, 41, suffered a medical emergency; the cause of his death remains unknown .
The deaths of three Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees in less than eight months have raised urgent questions about the medical services provided at Delaney Hall and at other detention centers, with immigrants and local officials describing haphazard health care.
In interviews, immigration lawyers said that detainees at the 1,000-bed center have routinely encountered hurdles in receiving daily medications and comprehensive treatment for chronic diseases such as cancer. Injuries that were sustained by detainees during arrests by ICE sometimes go untreated, they said.
Dozens of detainees at Delaney Hall have complained about medical neglect there during the past year.
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