Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number

The title of this story is borrowed from Jacobo Timerman’s book, which tells of the “disappearance” and imprisonment of the newspaper editor at the hands of the Argentine military junta in 1977.   Nina Bernstein of the N.Y. Times tells the troubling story of a Pakastani immigrant who died in U.S. immigration detention but who the U.S. government did not acknowledge even existed until three years after his death.  Sound like something from the American Gulag (or maybe the Twilight Zone)?

KJ