‘I’m going to lose my life in this place’: ICE detainees beg for release

Essex County jail is holding nearly 600 detainees who are not charged with a crime, but are trapped behind bars, up close with the coronavirus, while they await their day in immigration courts.

Essex County jail is holding nearly 600 detainees who are not charged with a crime, but are trapped behind bars, up close with the coronavirus, while they await their day in immigration courts.