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Since January 2025 detention has grown rapidly and shifted geographically: , , , and have been the primary anchors of the expanded system, with Texas—particularly facilities—housing the largest daily ...
As of late January 2026, publicly available reporting and government disclosures show that people have died while in custody in 2026, though earlier accounts counted four deaths in the first ten days ...
has documented and publicly reported and other serious mistreatment of immigrants detained at on Fort Bliss, gathering interviews and sworn declarations and urging to halt operations there and conduct...
Three of the four names listed in the question — Luis Beltran Yanez‑Cruz, and — died while in custody in the first 10 days of 2026, and reporting shows differing causes and levels of official culpabil...
Official reporting shows a small but concerning tally of custody in the opening weeks of 2026: government releases documented four deaths during January 3–9, a subsequent ICE notice announced a death ...
A definitive, exhaustively sourced list of " citizens that have been killed or detained illegally by " cannot be produced from the documents supplied because the reporting is partial, contested, and f...
2025 was described by multiple outlets as the deadliest year for people in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody in two decades, with reporting placing the toll at roughly 31–32 death...
Reporting shows that the federal government and ICE are actively expanding detention capacity: new facilities have opened, ICE is converting or contracting to use warehouses and other sites, and draft...
Official records do not establish that was killed by in 2026: ICE reported his death on Jan. 14 as a “presumed suicide” after staff found him unconscious at , and the agency says the cause remains und...
Available reporting indicates that Geraldo Lunas Campos — a 55-year-old detainee at Camp East Montana in El Paso — died on Jan. 3 while in ICE custody and that at least one fellow detainee alleges he ...
operates a sprawling, decentralized detention system composed of federally run Service Processing Centers, hundreds of local jails and county lockups that house ICE detainees under contract, and priva...
Hundreds of recently resettled refugees have been arrested in and transported to as part of a federal re‑examination of refugee cases, with advocates saying many had no criminal records while the gove...
In , recorded its deadliest year since 2004 with roughly 31–32 people dying in custody, and reporting and watchdog reviews identify ), ) and ) as among the facilities that have held the most deaths hi...
Reporting and publicly available analyses do not provide a single, authoritative, facility-by-facility ranking of , but multiple sources identify clusters and repeat problem sites—most prominently , ,...
’s publicly posted “Detainee Death Reports” and agency statements from FY2018 to the present show a mix of medical causes (heart-related illness, and other disease), suicides or alleged self-harm, and...
’s detention surge in 2025 was concentrated in southwestern and southeastern states — with , , , and housing the largest average daily populations — even as nationwide, creating a suggestive but not p...
Reporting shows a sharp rise in custody in 2025–early 2026 as the agency expanded detention operations, but the sources provided do not contain systematic city-level homicide or overall death-rate dat...
Independent, external autopsies or truly external investigations into the 30–32 deaths in custody in 2025 are limited and uneven: families, advocacy groups and local medical examiners have produced or...
Public reporting confirms at least one high-profile family transfer from to a family detention center in January 2026 — a five-year-old and his father taken to in Dilley after an arrest in Minnesota (...
custody has surged to record levels since the start of fiscal year 2026, with single‑day counts reported around 68,990–69,000 detainees and national tallies cited as high as roughly 73,000 in mid‑Janu...