Conflicting records and testimony are raising questions about the death of a Haitian woman in U.S. immigration custody in Broward County this spring.
Marie Ange Blaise, 44, died on April 25 at 8:35 p.m. while detained at the Broward Transitional Center, a for-profit detention facility funded by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
While ICE records blame Blaise for failing to take prescribed blood pressure medication on multiple occasions, her son told Broward investigators that she said she couldn’t get a doctor to see her on the day of her death. Additionally, another detainee told a human rights group that the medical response to Blaise was severely delayed…