May 18, 2009
Mentally ill detainees’ treatment at hospitals worries advocates
… Menasche said she was told in a meeting with Ziemer and ICE officials that ICE detainees are being automatically denied these rights, without any individual assessment of whether such a step is needed. The policy comes from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Menasche said.
She also said that before shackling a patient, the law requires that specific findings have to be made in the individual's case.
The detainees are taken to API from a private immigration jail in Otay Mesa run by Corrections Corporation of America, the largest private prison company in the nation. It has contracts to provide thousands of jail beds to the federal immigration agency…
LINK - SignonSanDiego.com (San Diego Union-Tribune)
