Canadian Border Services Agency and Lucia Vega Jimenez

Lucia Vega Jimenez: One month after Lucia death, another migrant death in detention, according to Rabble. Over the next week, media will focus on whether responded soon enough. They will question whether prison operations should be offloaded to private companies. They will recommend that use electronic bracelets as an alternative to detention and One month after the death of 42-year-old hotel worker and Mexican migrant Lucia Vega Jimenez in Canadian Border Services Agency custody, I received a call from a young Haitian woman at the same prison Lucia had been in. Unlike most detainees, she did not call to ask for legal advice to fight for her release, nor was she seeking support to stop her deportation. She called to ask me if I could find information on preventing the spread of infection. She had just miscarried. A coroner inquest into the death of Lucia is scheduled to begin today. Lucia was found hanging in detention cells at the Vancouver International Airport -- what has been referred to as a dungeon -- nine months ago. Lucia death was kept secret by for over a month, until community groups revealed the information to media and called for an independent investigation. These same community groups are now being shut out of the inquest , much like the process of the Missing Women Inquiry . (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.