Living in the Shadows: Detention center deaths raise immigrant rights questions - Part I

Privately-owned detention facilities often contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to house incarcerated immigrants awaiting legal judgments.  The prisons have been investigated for negligence concerning the medical issues of detainees, and their inadequacy of basic safety oversight. The story of Los Angeles resident Fernando Dominguez Valdivia is just one of more than 100 immigrants who've died in the custody of ICE.  “If that happened to my son, it’s going to continue to happen to everybody who ends up there, that they don’t give them the treatment they should.”   This is the first story in a series, called "Living in the Shadows," on Boyle Heights Beat.