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Recent, high-quality work through 2024–2025 shows observed U.S. sexual recidivism is substantially lower than many public assumptions: pooled routine-sample estimates commonly fall in the single digit...
Available reporting and public-data sources in the provided set do not contain any figure that directly answers “How many people of Somali descent were incarcerated in Minnesota prisons from 2020 to 2...
Independent researchers who analyzed FOIA-obtained ICE records — principally the Deportation Data Project and affiliated analyses — conclude that roughly two-thirds of ICE arrests in the 2025–2026 rep...
No single authoritative list in the provided reporting labels particular U.S. states as uniformly “soft on felony crimes”; instead, coverage highlights shifting policies at both federal and state leve...
Local police can sometimes perform immigration-related functions when formally authorized by federal programs such as 287(g), and the federal government has pushed to expand such cooperation; ICE repo...
Available sources show persistent racial disparities in arrests, convictions and sentencing, with Black people arrested and incarcerated at higher rates than White people even after some statistical c...
ICE’s publicly visible statistics and its FOIA-produced datasets have diverged in important ways: independent researchers obtained detailed, individual-level ICE records via FOIA that reveal missing o...
Reporting from major outlets and monitoring groups documents numerous instances in 2025 of U.S. citizens being detained, questioned, handcuffed and in some cases held for hours or days by ICE during l...
Based on the reporting provided, there are no reliably documented cases in 2025 of U.S. citizens being deported as part of ICE raids; major outlets and watchdogs documented multiple instances of citiz...
Donald Trump’s second term has produced a flurry of legal and ethical controversies spanning executive actions, immigration enforcement, executive orders, and questions about fitness for office; repor...
Between 2023 and 2025 ICE’s public arrest reporting and the underlying composition of who was being arrested shifted markedly: official categories and coding practices were changed or obscured by the ...
No reliable, specific count of how many lawful permanent residents (green card holders) ICE arrested or deported in 2025 can be produced from the reporting supplied: the public coverage and datasets c...
Available federal data show that a large share of federally sentenced non‑U.S. citizens were classified as “illegal aliens” — the U.S. Sentencing Commission reported 88.7% of federally sentenced non‑U...
Research summaries and policy briefs cited in recent reporting show that prison sentences — especially long terms — produce limited deterrent effects and can sometimes increase future offending; the N...
Recent reporting and research show a substantial Black–white incarceration gap, but the size varies by measure and year: several Prison Policy Initiative pieces report that nationally Black people are...
Mass incarceration remains a central U.S. policy crisis: national counts hover around “nearly 2 million” people locked up and reforms have cut drug-prisoning but not ended mass incarceration . Major a...
The Prison Policy Initiative (PPI) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) both document persistent racial disparities in U.S. incarceration in and around 2023, but they present different emphases ...
Across multiple independent analyses of ’s 2025 detention and arrest records, roughly 29–35 percent of people detained had a recorded U.S. criminal conviction, while about 65–72 percent had no crimina...
Freedom of Information Act litigation has forced ICE to provide individual-level enforcement records, and the Deportation Data Project (DDP) has processed and published those FOIA-derived files so res...
Publicly released datasets, NGO trackers and investigative reports since 2025 show a large uptick in ICE detentions and removals but yield mixed counts of actual deportations—ranging from government t...