Overcrowding for immigrant detainees to end at Otay facility – San Diego From: laprensa-sandiego.org

Eighteen months after filing a lawsuit against the Department Of Homeland Security and Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of San Diego County has reached a settlement with the hope of ending severe overcrowding at the San Diego Correctional Facility.

In January of last year, the ACLU joined a lawsuit, previously filed in San Diego Federal Court by Isaac Kigondu Kiniti, a Kenyan man who was arrested in May 2004 for immigration violations and has been at the Otay Mesa facility since November of that year.

Kiniti is awaiting a ruling on whether he will have to return to Kenya, but he is resisting going back, claiming that if he goes back, he would be subjected to persecution and torture. “*

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