Immigration Equality says U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has released four of its gay clients with HIV. Two of the men had been in ICE custody at the Richwood Correctional Center in Monroe, La.
The other two men were detained at the Winn Correctional Center in Winnfield, La., and La Palma Correctional Center in Eloy, Ariz.
LaSalle Corrections operates the Richwood and Winn Correctional Centers. CoreCivic, a company previously known as Corrections Corporation of America, runs La Palma Correctional Center. “All four of these clients are gay men living with HIV who had been persecuted in their countries of origin simply for being who they are,” said Immigration Equality Legal Director Bridget Crawford on April 10 in a YouTube video.
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