A Liberian national died last week while in the custody of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the second death of its kind in Georgia this year.
Forty-four-year-old detainee Cambric Dennis, who had been in the U.S. legally since August 1997, passed away on May 21 at the Phoebe Sumter Medical Center in Americus, Georgia. The cause of death has yet to be announced, according to a recent press release from ICE.
ICE first encountered Dennis last July at a Georgia Department of Corrections facility near Jackson, Georgia, after he was convicted on felony drug trafficking charges. He was booked into the Stewart Detention Center in Columbus in October and was awaiting a hearing before an immigration judge.
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