ATLANTA - An autopsy shows a detainee at a federal immigration detention center in south Georgia died of natural causes.
Georgia Bureau of Investigation spokesman John Bankhead said Thursday 39-year-old Roberto Martinez Medina died of myocarditis, an inflammatory heart disease.
Martinez, a Mexican national, was being held at Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin - which is operated by the same company that plans to open a similar facility in Gainesville, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). Martinez died March 11 at St. Francis Hospital in Columbus.
A coalition of immigrant rights and civil rights groups planned to hold a vigil Thursday in front of the Atlanta headquarters of the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency.
The groups are demanding accountability and transparency from the agency. Martinez's death was one of the issues they wanted information about.
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July 1st, 2025
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