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Jorge Umana-Martinez

47 years old · died October 30, 2014 · South Texas ICE Processing Center, San Antonio, Texas

Jorge Alberto Umana-Martinez, 47, died on October 30, 2014, while held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the South Texas Detention Complex in San Antonio, Texas. ICE said he died of sepsis. A 2016 Human Rights Watch report says an ICE Office of Detention Oversight death review found that medical experts judged his care appropriate.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said he died of sepsis.

Reported by: U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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