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Coronavirus Suit Filed Against ICE and Bristol County Sheriff

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Coronavirus Suit Filed Against ICE and Bristol County Sheriff

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A class action for emergency release has been filed in federal court by individuals in civil immigration detention at imminent risk of COVID-19 infection due to life-threatening conditions in the Bristol County House of Corrections run by Sheriff Thomas Hodgson. The complaint, filed by Lawyers for Civil Rights and Yale Law School’s Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic in partnership with the Brazilian Worker Center, contains alarming accounts of cruel and inhumane conditions: guards who report to work with coronavirus symptoms, and detained individuals who are still being brought into the facility – amidst the contagion – without any medical testing or screening. Even after one of the individuals who recently arrived fell severely ill, Bristol County and ICE failed to provide sanitizer or disinfectant. The immigrants bringing this case are literally trapped, and subject to imminent infection, illness and death because of their detention conditions under Sheriff Hodgson and ICE. In filing this complaint, Maria Alejandra, Julio Cesar, and their peers seek emergency release and alternatives to detention for all immigrants experiencing life-threatening conditions in Bristol County.

Date (Dublin Core)

March 27, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Lawyers for Civil Rights

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Anjelica Oswald

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Northeastern University

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English Conflict
English Immigration
English Government Federal

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Greater Boston
Immigrant Rights
Racial Justice
ICE
Detention centers
Lawyers

Collection (Dublin Core)

Law Enforcement
Social Justice

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

7/1/2020

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

7/20/2020
02/04/2021

Date Created (Dublin Core)

3/27/2020

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This item was submitted on July 1, 2020 by Anjelica Oswald using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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