Strip-searches. Overcrowded cells with open toilets. Scant meals that violate religious restrictions.
Federal public defenders say 120 asylum-seekers are enduring those conditions at a federal prison in Oregon where some have considered suicide and at least one has attempted it.
“We are dying day by day inside here,” one detainee said, William Teesdale, chief investigator for the federal public defender’s office in Oregon, wrote in a filing in federal court in Portland.
The immigrant was unwilling to be identified in
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