An immigrant detainee dies and a life is buried, as well

By Nina Bernstein / The Bulletin
April 3, 2009

The hand-scrawled letter from a New Jersey jail was urgent. An immigration detainee had died that day, Sept. 9, 2005, a fellow inmate wrote in broken English, describing chest pains and pleas for medical attention that went unheeded until too late.

“Death ... need to be....

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