General information

Call No.:

392-2-11:1/1

Part of series

HU OSA 392-2-11 Video Recordings of WITNESS: WITNESS Partners' Raw Footage: Nah We Yone ["It Belongs to Us"] - Support to Sierra Leonean refugees

Located at

DVD-ROM #1 / No. 1

Digital ver. identifier

HU OSA 392-2-11_001

Date of production

2001-04

Date

2001

Level

Item

Primary Type

Moving image

Language

English

Duration

45 min.

Content

Form/Genre

Raw material

Contents Summary

Following an organized tour of the Wackenhut Detention Center in Queens, New York (an INS facility), testimony by a former prison chaplain about how prisoners are better treated than INS detainees; Testimony by other religious leaders, including an Imam, a rabbi an officer of New York's Catholic Archdiocese; Testimony from Mr. Fofana, a Liberian, about his experience coming to US as an asylee; A rep from Congressman Gerald Nadler's office reads a statement. Lawyer's Committee for Human Rights atty Eleanor Acer speaks about pending legislation to address problems of detainees; another religious leader speaks; Dr. Allen Keller of Survivors of Torture speaks about the psychological effects of detention; more from Mr. Fofana about his time in Wackenhut; Will Coley of Jesuit Refugee Service speaks; another woman speaks.

Context

Associated Names

WITNESS (Copyright holder)

NWY (Copyright holder)