Cashing in on Cruelty: Stories of death, abuse and neglect at the GEO immigration detention facility in Aurora
On November 17, 2017, federal immigration agents arrested Kamyar Samimi, a Legal Permanent Resident who had lived in the U.S. for over four decades, at his home in Thornton, Colorado. He was taken to the Aurora Contract Detention Facility, operated by the for-profit prison company The GEO Group, Inc. Two weeks later, he died in their custody.
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