ICE Detainee Dies, Third To Die In Less Than A Year After Being Held In Ga.

A Cuban man who was held at an immigration detention center in southwest Georgia died Tuesday night, the third person to die who had been in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody in Georgia within the past year.

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ICE said in a news release that Yulio Castro-Garrido, 33, died at a hospital in Jacksonville, Florida. Castro had been diagnosed with pneumonia while at Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Georgia, and was taken to an area hospital in Cuthbert, Georgia, on Jan. 7. Officials said Castro had initially resisted medical treatment, which they said “caused his condition to worsen.”