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Rights Groups Accuse Buffalo ICE Prison of Chronic Abuse, Retaliation Against Immigrants

HeadlineJul 16, 2024

In New York, a coalition of immigration and civil rights groups has filed a complaint on behalf of immigrants detained at the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility over chronic abuse at the facility. The complaint accuses Immigration and Customs Enforcement of engaging in a brutal retaliation campaign against detained people who participated in a peaceful hunger strike to protest dire conditions inside the facility, being denied access to free calls to their families, and ICE’s practice of locking immigrants in their cells for 18 hours a day. ICE officials threatened the hunger strikers with physical violence and placing them in solitary confinement.

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