The family of Melvin Ariel Calero Mendoza is suing The GEO Group, which operates the Aurora Contract Detention Facility in Colorado, claiming the facility ignored his pleas for medical help before he died from a blood clot.
is suing the operator of a privately-run Aurora detention center that they say ignored his pleas for help following a pattern of preventable detainee deaths.
The GEO Group, which manages the facility on behalf of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, did not respond to a request for comment. ICE spokesman Steve Kotecki wrote in an email the agency does not comment on pending litigation. Reflecting on their 2018 visit to the facility to investigate complaints as part of an Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties team,one medical doctor observed “serval areas of poor performance, some of which rise to the level of an unsafe environment of detention, and care that puts the health and wellbeing of … detainees at risk.”
“Melvin and Dorling desired a better life for themselves and their two young children,” the lawsuit by Mendoza’s family says. “Nicaragua had become dangerous and untenable. Political turmoil had shaken the country for years, food prices were rising and gang violence was rampant.” He told the nurse that he had injured the foot while playing soccer two and a half weeks prior, but that the pain had worsened when he climbed into his upper bunk bed Aug. 31.
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