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Surveillance video of a transgender immigrant who died in ICE custody may have been deleted while investigations into her death were ongoing, lawyers representing her family said Wednesday. The company that runs the facility says their cameras automatically overwrote the video.

The attorneys said the footage could be key evidence revealing the events leading up to the death of Roxsana Hernandez, a 33-year-old from Honduras who died May 25, 2018, in New Mexico from AIDS complications.

Wednesday, the Transgender Law Center and attorney Andrew Free released an email exchange between officials that indicates surveillance footage was not preserved from inside the Cibola County Correctional Center, a privately run ICE detention facility where Hernandez was held for less than a day before she was hospitalized.

Attorneys representing Hernandez's family filed notice of a wrongful death claim in November.
They also filed a lawsuit in New Mexico on Wednesday against CoreCivic, the private company that runs the Cibola facility, asking a judge to force the company to release video and other records in the case.

"They were on notice to preserve any and all video surveillance and it seems they may have failed to do so," Free said in a statement. "We filed suit because we have reason to believe they may be withholding more evidence. The public has the right to know what happened to people who die in the custody of the US government and CoreCivic is not above the law."

https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/10/24/us/transgender-migrant-video/index.html

Private run detention facilities
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Is this a bad time to mention that they were moving women and children from these holding facilities and refuse to tell people what happened to them?
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tremain07 posted...

Is this a bad time to mention that they were moving women and children from these holding facilities and refuse to tell people what happened to them?

More reasons why private detention facilities shouldnt be a thing.
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