The Strange Death of José de Jesús, Part 2

Latino USA

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Society & Culture

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🗓️ 7 July 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

In part two of our two-part special, we continue our investigation into the death of a man in a U.S. immigration detention center in 2015. José de Jesús turned himself into Border Patrol saying somebody was after him. Three days later, he died by suicide after stuffing a sock down his throat. In part two of this story, surveillance video reveals clues about what happened inside his cell, and an internal investigation from Immigration and Customs Enforcement answers many of our questions about what happened to José in the days leading up to his death.

This story originally aired in 2016.

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0:00.0	Hey, a quick note before we start this episode.
0:07.0	This is the second part of a two-part special,
0:12.0	so we encourage you to go back and listen to
0:14.1	part one of the strange death of Jose de Jesus because we'll be referring to it in
0:18.3	this episode and a quick warning especially for those with little ones,
0:22.5	there's some graphic language in the story about suicide
0:25.2	that may be difficult for some listeners
0:26.9	and may not be it's Latino USA. I'm Marianne Hosa.
0:41.0	Today, the second episode of our two-part special the strange death of Jose de Jesus. The number of deaths of people in immigration detention this fiscal year has doubled. And so we're bringing back on the air an award-winning
1:05.7	investigation that originally aired in 2016. Last week we brought you
1:10.8	episode one of The Strange Death of Jose de Jesus.
1:15.0	Today here's the second and final part of our investigation.
1:20.0	We've been telling the story of Jose de Jesus Denise Saguen. He was found dead at the Eiloy
1:27.7	immigration detention facility in Arizona in 2015, with a sock stuffed down his throat.
1:34.8	Producers Marlon Bishop, Finanha Chavari, and myself
1:38.8	first reported our investigation about his death in 2016 as a way to tell a larger story about the
1:46.0	conditions inside these immigration detention facilities.
1:51.2	When we left off last week, we had just received a package in the mail containing surveillance footage from the
1:58.1	Eloy Detention Facility from the exact day that Jose de Jesus died.
2:03.1	We had requested it from the local police department.
2:06.3	We hoped it would provide us with some clues
2:08.9	as to exactly what happened to Jose de Jesus?
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