The death of a man at Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Philipsburg, Pa. — one of the country’s largest immigrant detention centers in the nation — has sparked renewed calls to shut down the facility.

Chaofeng Ge, a 32-year-old Chinese citizen, was pronounced dead early Tuesday morning after he was found unresponsive, hanging by the neck in the shower room of his detention pod.

Mr. Ge had been in custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement for five days and had been awaiting a hearing before the U.S. Department of Justice’s Executive Office for Immigration Review. On Wednesday, Pennsylvania State Police ruled his death a suicide.

Following Mr. Ge’s death, ICE notified the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Office of the Inspector General, and the Chinese embassy, according

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