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The US Marshals' Detention Empire: The Death of Isac Garcia-Wislar
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October 23, 2019
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Isac Garcia-Wislar was 51 when, in March 2017, he was locked up in the Tom Green County Jail, in San Angelo, Texas. Border officials had placed an immigration hold on him and referred him to federal prosecutors. As soon as he was charged, Isac became a detainee of the US Marshals Service, an arm of the Department of Justice.
Four months after he was arrested, Garcia-Wislar told a jail nurse that he had intense pain in his back and shoulder, and he was short of breath. Jail officials refused to send him to the hospital until after he collapsed. He died a few days later.
It's just one of the deaths journalist Seth Freed Wessler details in his new investigation for Mother Jones, in partnership with Type Investigations, showing that America’s oldest law enforcement agency is suffering from a massive dereliction of duty.
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