Jesse Dean died in early 2021 after complaining for weeks about pain to the staff at Calhoun County Jail, ICE’s contracted detention facility in Battle Creek, Michigan.
“Calhoun County Jail medical staff should have acted more swiftly to meet Mr. Dean’s needs after correlating his complaints of worsening,” thesaid, basing its conclusion on a medical team that reviewed Dean’s case along with nine other deaths in Homeland Security custody in 2021. In a summary of the case posted online, the ACLU of Michigan said it obtained documentation of his care that showed he complained at least 27 times of stomach pain, nausea and vomiting. The ACLU said he was ignored, and a nurse threatened to discipline him if he continued to complain.
“Local police and jails should not be in the business of inhumanely caging people on behalf of ICE,” Mr. Wadood said. He said a key document against him — a set of instructions he says he never signed — has disappeared from DEA records. And he said investigators had confused him with another Jesse Dean who lived in Illinois and who had been on the DEA’s radar.
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