Delaney Shares Experience At Holding Facility
Kathy Cornwell has spent over 40 years in local media, starting her career with an internship at WCBC in the late 1980s. After graduating from Frostburg State University, she worked extensively in cable television advertising and programming with Comcast. From 2002 to 2005, she was married to WCBC's Jim Robey. Kathy returned to the News Department at WCBC in 2023. She lives in Cumberland with her husband, retired radio station manager Rich Cornwell.
District 6 Congresswoman April McClain-Delaney shared with reporters her experience after visiting a holding facility in Baltimore for those arrested by immigrations enforcement. A viral video showed a large group of individuals sitting, standing or laying in one room. Delaney said what she saw was heart wrenching and not indicative of American values…
“Overcrowded conditions, worse than prisons. People not having enough to eat or drink. This is a 12-hour holding facility. It has been used for 24, 48, 72 hours – up to nine days. No showers, not getting out of this holding room.”