How many deaths have not been disclosed? If we don't just look at deaths at medical facilities, can we count the people who burned to death during the Southern California fires? They were hiding in the brush because they knew if they went to shelters they would be detained and deported.
--- A Closer Look At 83 DeathsBased on confidential medical records and other sources, The Washington Post identified 83 deaths of immigration detainees between March 2003, when the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency was created, and March 2008. The Post found that 30 of the deaths were questionable [for interactive WP map click here]--
* QUESTIONABLE DEATHS: In 30 of the cases examined by The Post, action taken -- or not taken -- by the medical staff may have contributed to the deaths, according to medical records, confidential internal reviews, or the assessment of outside physicians who reviewed some cases for The Post.
List of Questionable Deaths in Detention March 2003 to March 2005
Name
Location of DeathDate of Death Age Country of Birth Luis Dubegel-Paez
Rolling Plains Detention Facility (Tex.)3/14/08 60 Cuba Francisco Castaneda
Home after release from Otay Mesa (Calif.)2/16/08 36 El Salvador Juan Alejandro Guevara-Lazaro
Thomason Hospital (Tex.)8/13/07 21 Mexico Rosa Contreras-Dominquez
El Paso Service Processing Center (Tex.)8/7/07 35 Mexico Victor Arellano
Little Company of Mary San Pedro Hospital (Calif.)7/20/07 23 Mexico Boubacar Bah
University of Medicine (N.J.)5/30/07 52 Guinea Nery Romero
Bergen County Jail (N.J.)2/12/07 22 El Salvador Jesus Cervantes-Corona
Northwest Detention Center (Wash.)11/18/06 42 Mexico Antonio Martinez-Rivas
Houston Contract Detention Facility (Tex.)10/4/06 44 Mexico Carlos Cortez-Raudel
Mira Loma Detention Center (Calif.)10/3/06 22 Mexico Jose Lopez-Gregorio
Eloy Federal Contract Facility (Ariz.)9/29/06 32 Guatemala Yusif Osman
Otay Mesa detention facility (Calif.)6/27/06 34 Ghana Miguel Rodriguez-Gonzalez
San Pedro Peninsula Hospital (Calif.)5/21/06 43 Mexico Geovanny Garcia-Mejia
Newton County Correctional Center (Tex.)3/18/06 27 Honduras Felipe Garcia-Sanchez
Oakdale Federal Detention Center (La.)2/10/06 21 Colombia Juan Salazar-Gomez
Eloy Federal Contract Facility (Ariz.)12/14/05 29 Mexico Reinaldo Prado-Arencilia
Northeast Medical Center (Tex.)10/3/05 37 Cuba Walter Alvarez-Esquivel
Laredo Medical Center (Tex.)6/30/05 46 Guatemala Hassiba Belbachir
McHenry County Jail (Ill.)3/17/05 27 Algeria Sung Soo Heo
Passaic County Jail (N.J.)2/16/05 51 Korea Ignacio Sarabia-Vallasenor
Otay Mesa detention facility (Calif.)1/4/05 32 Mexico Joseph Dantica
Jackson Memorial Hospital (Fla.)11/3/04 81 Haiti Simon Reyes-Altimirano
Mesa Hills Specialty Hospital (Tex.)10/12/04 25 Hondurus Ervin Ruiz-Tabares
Guaynabo Metropolitan Detention Center (P.R.)9/25/04 24 Colombia Sebastian Mejia Vicentes
Hampton Roads Regional Jail (Va.)8/22/04 27 Mexico Juan Figueredo-Lopez
U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners (Mo.)5/29/04 45 Cuba Cesar Rioz-Martinez
Frio County Jail (Tex.)2/16/04 25 Mexico Adetunji Popoola
Parkland Memorial Hospital (Tex.)2/1/04 48 Nigeria Bill Roy Kurt Marion
San Diego Correctional Facility (Calif.)7/31/03 ? Unknown Kwan A. Chong
San Pedro/UCLA-Harbor Hospital (Calif.)6/10/03 ? Unknown SOURCES: Immigration and Customs Enforcement and other sources | By Justin Ferrell, Nathaniel Vaughn Kelso, Julie Tate and Larry Nista, The Washington Post - May 10, 2008.
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