Roxsana Rodriguez died following lack of medical treatment in a privately run immigration detention center. An autopsy concludes that she was beaten.
By Scott Bixby and Betsy Woodruff
A transgender woman who died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement
custody after being held in a privately operated detention center was
likely physically abused there, according an autopsy report released
Monday, and died after several days of severe, untreated dehydration.
Roxsana
Hernández Rodriguez, 33, a transgender woman from Honduras, died on May
25, nine days after being transferred to a dedicated unit for
transgender women at the Cibola County Correctional Center in New
Mexico, which is operated under contract by CoreCivic, the
second-largest private prison company in the United States.
“There
she developed severe diarrhea and vomiting over the course of several
days,” wrote forensic pathologist Kris Sperry, “and finally was
emergently hospitalized, then transported to Lovelace Medical Center in
Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she remained critically ill until her
death.”
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Source: The Daily Beast
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