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Children in U.S. Family Detention Facilities 2018-2025

The topic is about the number of children held in U.S. family detention facilities from 2018 to 2025, including the challenges in obtaining accurate data and the changes in detention policies over the years.

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Jan 29, 2026
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How many children have been detained in family facilities each year since 2018 and what are the reliable data sources?

Reliable public counts of children held in family detention facilities since 2018 do not exist as a neat year-by-year series; available data must be stitched together from /ORR custody numbers, / dete...