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Advocacy and Criticism of ICE Medical Care

Criticism of medical care in ICE custody, including reports of preventable deaths and undercounting of deaths.

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Jan 17, 2026
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How many people died in ICE custody each year since 2000 according to ICE’s official reports?

ICE publishes individual detainee death reports and a death-reporting policy, but the sources provided do not contain a single, official year-by-year tally from 2000 through 2025; available reporting ...

Jan 27, 2026
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How does Fatal Neglect define and count deaths in ICE custody, and how does that methodology compare with ICE's own reports?

— the joint 2016 report by the , and the — defines and tallies deaths by examining specific in-custody fatalities and the agency documents and inspections tied to them, focusing particularly on eight ...