He Fled Persecution — and Then Was Locked Up in U.S. Detention for Over 800 Days

After leaving Cameroon for the United States, Nelson Achiri Geh was shuffled between three detention centers; at one point, he didn’t see the sun for six months

John Washington
GEN
Published in
9 min readJul 22, 2019

--

An ICE detention center in Georgia. Photo: Boston Globe/Getty Images

--

--

John Washington
GEN
Writer for

John Washington is a writer and translator focusing on immigration and criminal justice. His first book on US asylum history/policy is forthcoming from Verso.