Along with Detention Watch Network, we are mourning the loss this month of Jesse Jerome Dean, Jr., a victim of entrapment by the federal government who served 30 years in prison on drug-trafficking charges and who consistently professed his innocence. He was recently imprisoned at the North Lake Correctional Facility in Baldwin until December 31st, 2020, and was then seized by ICE and held in immigration detention at the Calhoun County Jail until he died on February 5th. In their press release announcing his death, ICE misspelled his name.
“Despite […] very detailed showings of both my actual and legal innocence and the fraud that was perpetrated upon me and the court,” Jesse wrote in 2008, “I remain imprisoned; each and every court that has reviewed my claims has denied me relief, ignoring their own laws, the facts and the truth!” His full statement can be read here.
The North Lake Correctional Facility had already claimed at least two lives in the last year. Now another immigrant barely made it out of North Lake only to die a month later in ICE detention at a Michigan county jail. This terrible news comes as a reminder not only that shadow prisons like North Lake must be shut down, but that the entire immigrant detention apparatus of which North Lake is a part must be dismantled. #FreeThemAll
No Detention Centers in Michigan 
I had no idea this was going on in our state, ……this is so disturbing, it makes my stomach turn, I’m in disbelief of this in entire situation! I’m wondering why this was alloud in our state in the first place? Apparently it’s well known that these privately run prisons ran by this corporation are only making money and Have absolutely no regard to the life or the poor tormented souls their housing, this is completely unacceptable in this day and age, and in this country!
I believe that it should also be reported as to who was in office during the ground breaking days of this horrible travesty, local, as well as the higher up heads of state. This is not rite, it’s sounding to me that people that were/are supposed to be looking after the community both on a state, or higher level have turned a blind eye to the communities there supposed to be helping comunities flourish and move ahead, and take pride in their suroundings, not look the other way, they knew exactly what was coming into the community and did not stop it! That is wrong, I believe there’s more to this story then meets the eye.
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