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Louisiana Illuminator: ACLU sues to free Angola ICE detainee who’s already served sentence, has deportation protection

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Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights has filed a lawsuit on behalf of a man illegally held in ICE detention in Louisiana’s notorious Angola prison, despite having court-ordered protection from deportation and having already served his full criminal sentence for past convictions.

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