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Investigations into deaths of detainees, including reviews by the DHS Office of Inspector General and advocacy groups.
ICE publishes a central Detainee Death Reporting page on its public website where individual death reports and related press releases are posted, and the agency says it will make full reviews public w...
’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...
treats an “in‑custody” death as any death of a person while under its custody — including deaths at facilities and those who die in hospitals while still detained — and requires rapid internal notific...
’s public reporting treats “” deaths as those covered by its 2021 Directive on Notification, Review, and Reporting Requirements for Detainee Deaths and by the agency’s detainee-death reporting process...
Deaths that occur during enforcement actions or in ICE detention trigger a patchwork of internal agency reporting, medical review, Inspector General oversight and—occasionally—outside law‑enforcement ...
maintains an internal architecture for notifying, reviewing and publishing reports about detainee deaths — codified most recently in Directive 11003.5 and summarized on ICE’s detainee death reporting ...