Authorities say a Panamanian man who died of apparent suicide at an immigration detention center in Southwest Georgia had been in solitary confinement for 19 days.
Federal immigration officials said 27-year-old Jean Jimenez-Joseph was found unresponsive in his cell at the Stewart Detention Center with a sheet around his neck early Monday morning. He was later pronounced dead at a hospital in Americus, according to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Jimenez-Joseph had been in solitary confinement since April 27 after he had jumped from a second floor walkway at the detention center to the first floor, said Danny Jackson, special agent with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which is investigating the incident.
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