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Report: 83 Immigrants Have Died in US Custody

HeadlineMay 13, 2008

Meanwhile, the Washington Post has published a major investigative series on the sub-standard health care offered in immigration detention centers in the United States. According to the Post, eighty-three detainees have died in or soon after custody during the past five years. Most of the people who died were young. Thirty-two of the detainees were younger than forty, and only six were seventy or older.

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