Asylum-seekers, attorneys decry 'horrendous' Louisiana ICE detention center

Posted on AllSides June 22nd, 2021
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During his 46 days at the Winn Correctional Center in Louisiana, an asylum-seeker who was detained there said he witnessed “horrible conditions” that were “not suitable for humans.”

The recently paroled detainee, who did not want to use his name pending his asylum case, spoke on the phone with NBC News and recounted there was little food, a lack of toilets, no hot water and extremely cold temperatures inside the facility.

Immigration attorneys and advocates are sounding the alarm over conditions at the detention center run by the New Orleans...

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