Deaths in Custody
Died in immigration detentionHeld by ICE

Young Sook Kim

57 years old · died September 11, 2006 · Bernalillo County Detention Center, Bernalillo County, New Mexico

Young Sook Kim, 57, died on September 11, 2006, while held in immigration detention at the Bernalillo County Detention Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement listed the cause of death as widely metastatic pancreatic cancer.

Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. ICE says she died of widely metastatic pancreatic cancer.

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

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