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 Careless Detention: Yong Harvill's StoryPhotos | Yong Sun Harvill faces deportation to her native South Korea, a country she left more than 30 years ago. While her lawyers fight her immigration case, she is detained in Arizona, thousands of miles from her Florida home, in a county jail that doesn't have a full-time doctor. Cut off from friends and family, she struggles to obtain care for a long list of medical problems, including cancer.  In Custody, in PainFLORENCE, Ariz. -- Underneath her baggy jail-issue pants, Yong Sun Harvill feels the soft lump just below her left knee. Sometimes it tingles. Sometimes it is numb. Like her cancer felt when it arrived behind the knee a few years ago. |
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