Immigrant Detainees Reported Mistreatment at Private Jail Before Suicide

Immigrant detainees reported mistreatment at private jail before suicide

First responders rushed to a private jail in rural Pennsylvania last month, where guards discovered one of the hundreds of immigrants detained there hanging in a shower room.Efforts to revive 32-year-old Chaofeng Ge failed. The Chinese national who had been living in New York City was pronounced dead from suicide."Obviously, Mr. Ge's family is very concerned," said New York state senator John Liu, who has been in touch with Ge's brother. "They w…

Inside Pa.’s largest immigrant detention center: Violence, desperation, little oversight

The vast majority of those held in the Moshannon Valley Processing Center, run by a private contractor, have no criminal convictions in the U.S.