Feb 03 2016

Nation Investigative Piece Explores Deaths Inside Immigrant Prisons

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GUEST: Seth Freed Wessler, Senior Fellow at the Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism and a contributor to The Nation magazine. His investigation, reported in partnership with the Investigative Fund, with support from the Puffin Foundation, is the cover story of the February 15 edition of the magazine. 

Tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants are being held inside privately run federal prisons in the US, and, according to a new, in-depth Nation investigative report, there have been disturbing numbers of deaths in it. Based on more than 9000 documents obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests, reporter Seth Freed Wessler spent over a year working on the piece, entitled, “This Man Will Almost Certainly Die.”

Click here to read Seth Wessler’s article in The Nation: http://www.thenation.com/article/privatized-immigrant-prison-deaths/.

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