An asylum-seeker who died in ICE custody was sick for months. Advocates fear other ill people are not getting proper care.

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An asylum-seeker who died in ICE custody was sick for months. Advocates fear other ill people are not getting proper care.
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A man who died earlier this year in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody had been sick for months, his condition seeming to worsen as he was held at a troubled detention center in Louisiana, advocates say and ICE records show. Ousmane Ba, a 33-year-old man from Senegal, died Feb. 23 after being hospitalized for nearly a month, according to a statement from ICE.

ICE announced in March 2022 that it was limiting use of three facilities, including Winn, but since then Winn’s population has only grown. An ICE inspection report in January graded the conditions at Winn as “acceptable/adequate,” finding more deficiencies than in fiscal year 2023, when it received a rating of “good,” according to the report. Adequate is one step above “failure” on the scale, with the highest grade being “superior.

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