“It was inhumane how they treated us. It got to the point where I was ready to sign a deportation paper just to not be suffering there anymore. I just needed to get out of there.” What makes this detainment center story different? The detainee is an American citizen. Dallas News: No shower for 23 days: U.S. citizen says conditions were so bad that he almost self-deported.

+ “An autopsy report obtained by Texas Monthly provides new details about the death of Hernandez, the fifth Guatemalan child to die since December after being taken into Border Patrol custody. Conducted by Dr. Norma Jean Farley, a contract forensic pathologist for Hidalgo County, the autopsy concludes that Hernandez succumbed to the flu, complicated by pneumonia and sepsis, on or near the toilet of his South Texas Border Patrol cell.” Texas Monthly: Autopsy Offers Jarring New Details About the Death of a 16-Year-Old Guatemalan Boy.

+ CBS News: Thousands of unaccompanied migrant children could be detained indefinitely.