| Post Cites Texas Detention Center in Series |
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| by Carolyn Barta | Tue, May 13, 2008, 04:06 PM |
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The Washington Post is running a 4-part series about the "Careless Detention" of immigrants that has resulted in suicides, medical and mental health problems across the country. In today's story, the Post highlights poor practices that created a crisis situation at the South Texas Detention Complex at Pearsall, outside San Antonio. The story on suicides includes the headline: "Errors in Psychiatric Diagnoses and Drugs Strain Immigration System" and details various instances of problems at the Texas facility and others. The Post discovered 83 deaths of immigrants detained since 2003, when the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency was created, and termed 30 of them "questionable" -- with 10 of those occurring in Texas (including one in Pearsall, three in El Paso and one at Parkland in Dallas). Authors of this blockbuster series are Dana Priest, a Pulitzer winner for her work on care of returning soldiers at Walter Reed Hospital, and Amy Goldstein. Here's the Day 3 story.
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written by Paul Barnes , May 14, 2008 Carolyn, thank you for posting this important and troubling story. Again, the Bush administration flouts international law and it is little reported in the media.
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written by HSH , May 14, 2008 Scott Pelley also had a piece Sunday evening on 60 Minutes. This series, although not garnering as much attention (unfortunately) as the Walter Reed series, has been extremely unsettling and troubling, regardless of anyone's personal opinion on the illegal immigration issue. Once more blaring example of how, in the last 8 years, even the career side of the federal bureaucracy has become as incompetent as the political side. Write comment
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