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ICE Releases Columbia Protester Who Was Held for One Year (www.nytimes.com)
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cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/43571923

The woman, Leqaa Kordia, 33, was freed on Monday, about a month after she said she had been chained to a hospital bed following a seizure inside the Prairieland Detention Center in Alvarado, Texas, where she described filthy and inhumane conditions. She has not been charged with a crime.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Only in the USA, the land of the "free", do you get to spend a year innocently in jail just to wait to be set free