Thousands of Immigrants Suffer in Solitary Confinement in ICE Detention




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Summary: Dulce Rivera lived for the one hour a day she was allowed outside, to pace alone on a patch of concrete encasedinmetal fencing. They called it “the yard,” but it was really a metal cage. Still, it was far better than the misery she endured the other 23 hours a day, locked alone in a cell with no one to talk to and nothing to distract her from her increasingly dark thoughts. Rivera, a 36-year-old transgender woman from Honduras and a longtime U.S. resident, was detained by U.S.