It was February 1, 2007, when Boubacar Bah, a tailor from Guinea, fell and injured his head in the Elizabeth Detention Center in New Jersey. Bah, 52, had been taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for overstaying a tourist visa. Bah had lived and worked in New York City for a decade, sending the money he earned to his family in Africa.
Mr. Bah died after months in a coma on May 30, 2007. In the interim, ICE officials lied to his friends and family, concealed essential details, and conspired to cover up the incident, according to documents obtained by the ACLU and the New York Times. Among the conspirators was Capt. Nina Dozoretz, CEO of Correctcare Consultants LLC and formerly the Division of Immigration Health Service’s Associate Director, which put her in charge of the over 20,000 inmates in ICE custody.
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