House Immigration Subcommittee Hearing on Detention and Medical Care


On October 4, 2007 the US House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, Refugees, Border Security, and International Law held a hearing on "Detention and Removal: Immigration Detainee Medical Care."

See the subcommittee's page on the hearing here.

Read the witness testimonies:

Gary Mead, Assistant Director of Management, Office of Detention and Removal
Francisco Castaneda, former detainee
Edwidge Danticat, author and niece of Rev. Joseph Dantica, deceased detainee
June Everett, sister of Sandra Kenley, deceased detainee
Tom Jawetz, ACLU National Prison Project
Allen Keller, New York University School of Medicine
Cheryl Little, Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center

More information and podcasts can be found on the ACLU website here.

Articles about the hearing are in our News section.