ICE detainee in Arizona dies after not receiving ‘timely medical attention’
by Coral Murphy Marcos from US news | The Guardian on (#741K9)
Emmanuel Damas, a Haitian asylum seeker, was being held at the Florence correctional center before he died
A man being held at a US immigration detention facility in Arizona died this week after reporting severe tooth pain and not receiving timely medical attention", according to a local official.
Emmanuel Damas, a Haitian asylum seeker, was being held at the Florence correctional center in Arizona when he began to feel a toothache in mid-February, a pain that weeks later led him to the hospital before he died on Monday.
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