Detainees in America: System of Neglect »
Posted By bubba2 1 year, 8 months ago in NewsYusif Osman's death at the Otay Mesa immigrant detention center outside San Diego is a single tragedy in a larger story of life, death and often shabby medical care within an unseen network of special prisons for foreign detainees across the country. Some 33,000 people are crammed into these overcrowded compounds on a given day.
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bubba21 year, 8 months ago
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The medical neglect they endure is part of the hidden human cost of increasingly strict policies in the post-Sept. 11 United States and a lack of preparation for the impact of those policies. The detainees have less access to lawyers than convicted murderers in maximum-security prisons and some have fewer comforts than al-Qaeda terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
But they are not terrorists. Most are working-class men and women or indigent laborers who made mistakes that seem to pose no threat to national security.
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The investigation found a hidden world of flawed medical judgments, faulty administrative practices, neglectful guards, ill-trained technicians, sloppy record-keeping, lost medical files and dangerous staff shortages. It is also a world increasingly run by high-priced private contractors. There is evidence that infectious diseases, including tuberculosis and chicken pox, are spreading inside the centers.
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dexlovex21 year, 8 months ago
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"The illegal status is irrelevant to the medical issue. Detainee was in U.S. custody and Physicians Assistant had duty to provide medical care. Their should be legal action taken to revoke the license of the PA for willfully attempting to alter medical records to conceal the negligent medical care."
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