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...According to the New York Times, scores of suits have been filed against the contracted prisons by immigrants charging physical abuse, malnutrition and desperately unsanitary conditions - and hundreds of cases of abuse are on file with human rights attorneys. In perhaps the best known documentation of such treatment, Fauziya Kassindja's 1998 autobiography "Do They Hear You When You Cry" details her flight from threatened genital mutilation in Togo to the United States, where she was imprisoned for months, waiting for legal help and suffering extraordinary physical and emotional distress...
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