PROVIDENCE, R.I., Jan. 27 (UPI) -- Employees of an immigrant detention center in Rhode Island will not face criminal charges for an inmate's cancer death, authorities say.
State Attorney General Patrick Lynch said no state laws appeared to have been broken at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility in Central Falls, the Providence Journal reported. But he said Hiu Lui Ng was badly treated during the weeks he spent at the detention center before being transferred to a hospital where he died.
"I am deeply troubled that Mr. Ng's declining medical condition went undiagnosed, and that the last weeks of his life, in the custody of our U.S. government, were filled with excruciating pain," Lynch said. "As well as the physical pain he suffered, the erosion of the dignity to which he was entitled and the anxiety no doubt felt by his family, are extremely troubling to me."
Ng, 33, a Chinese national, died in August of cancer that was only diagnosed shortly before his death.
