The dead man was 32-year-old Chaofeng Ge, originally from China. He was living in New York City last year when he was arrested in Pennsylvania for trying to use credit card numbers that did not belong to him to buy gift cards at a CVS Pharmacy. According to an ICE statement released late Wednesday after The Intercept’s inquiry, he pleaded guilty and was handed over to ICE by local authorities.
Ge had been detained at the Moshannon detention facility, which is run by the private prison firm GEO Group, for five days before taking his own life. (GEO Group spokesperson Christopher Ferreira referred questions to ICE.)
As I mentioned the last time this was posted — I didn’t realize immigration detention centers allowed detainees to shower alone, unguarded, or to wander around the facility on their own.
Yeah, that’s a bit of a puzzle, isn’t it?
Ge was last seen alive at 4:30 a.m. on Tuesday and was discovered an hour later hanging by a ligature in a shower room
So he was seen at 4:30 AM, one assumes by a guard, and an hour later he was hanging in a shower room? That is obviously bullshit.
The article goes on about how the facility is so horrible and has had “scores of complaints” about how oppressive it is and how it is more like a prison for convicted criminals but it never even asks the obvious question of how he was able to exit his cell at 4:30 AM and go to the shower room?
Journalism is dead. No questions, just post the tweet. First to post wins.
Understaffed, overstuffed.
All sorts of things can happen
poor guy, I’d kill myself too if I had to live in China
Pennsylvania, China?
