JeanCarlo Jimenez-Joseph
JeanCarlo Jimenez-Joseph, 27, was a Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipient who had spent most of his life in the United States. He died by suicide at the CoreCivic Stewart Detention Center in Georgia, an immigration detention facility, 19 days after he was placed in solitary confinement following an earlier suicide attempt. According to a report by the American Civil Liberties Union, Detention Watch Network, Human Rights Watch and the National Immigrant Justice Center, he was not placed on suicide watch and did not receive the increased dose of anti-psychotic medication he requested.
Cause of death, as reported: Died by suicide (neglect alleged). The ACLU, Detention Watch Network, Human Rights Watch and National Immigrant Justice Center report says he died by suicide after staff placed him in solitary confinement without suicide watch and withheld the increased anti-psychotic dose he requested.
Reported by: American Civil Liberties Union, Detention Watch Network, Human Rights Watch and National Immigrant Justice Center report (advocates).