SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) -- Marigolds, candles and traditional offerings were set on an ofrenda, also known as an altar, at the Otay Mesa Detention Center on Wednesday to remember people who died while in detention facilities across the country.

Día de los Muertos, also known as Day of the Dead, is a traditional Mexican holiday honoring and remembering the dead with ofrendas containing offerings.

Groups like the American Friends Service Committee, Detention Resistance, Free Them All-SD and more organized the vigil. Director of the American Friends Service Committee Pedro Rios said they want to make sure those who died in custody are not forgotten.

Rios said they gathered “to honor them and to recognize them as important because they have names, they have families that likely did not have

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