ICE detainee in Arizona dies after not receiving ‘timely medical attention’

Emmanuel Damas, a Haitian asylum seeker, was being held at the Florence correctional center before he died

A man being held at a US immigration detention facility in Arizona died this week after reporting severe tooth pain and not receiving “timely medical attention”, according to a local official.

Emmanuel Damas, a Haitian asylum seeker, was being held at the Florence correctional center in Arizona when he began to feel a toothache in mid-February, a pain that weeks later led him to the hospital before he died on Monday.

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