Immigrant Who Alleged Abuse at Center Is Freed
A Nigerian man whose account of abuse spawned reforms at a detention center for immigrants has been freed in Hackensack after spending three years behind bars.
An immigration judge granted Oluwole Aboyade, 23, relief from deportation under a United Nations convention against torture.
Authorities said Aboyade entered the U.S. illegally in 1997. He was arrested in Boston in 1998 after he allegedly attempted to obtain a driver’s license using his cousin’s identification and was taken to the privately run Elizabeth Detention Center.
In 1999, Aboyade and another detainee accused guards at the center of beating them after they complained about conditions.
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