Freed Nicaraguan Political Prisoners Find A Home In The Bay Area

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CONCORD, CA — After years, 222 Nicaraguan political prisoners finally have a second chance at life in the United States.

Six of them are here in the Bay Area, where they are living in Concord temporarily.

"The night of February 8, some Nicaraguan National Penitentiary System jail officers transported us to the Augusto Sandino International Airport in Managua, the capital," Brian Cruz, a former political prisoner, told KPIX. "I thought they would torture us. Instead, we were forced to board a plane headed to Washington, D.C. Once on the air -- a big revelation. They told us that we all had been exiled from Nicaragua."

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