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The quality and accessibility of healthcare for detainees in ICE custody.
follows a written, multilayered policy for notifying stakeholders and publishing initial death reports within a statutory timeframe, and posts agency news releases about detained deaths on ICE.gov . C...
The best available reporting places the average length of detention in 2025 in the mid‑40s of days—roughly —while important subgroups and specific facilities experience much shorter or much longer sta...
Between 2003 and 2017, public records and academic reviews show several years with clearly elevated numbers of deaths in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody, most notably around 200...
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 ...
ICE maintains written procedures for investigating detainee deaths, including a 2021 policy that mandates rapid internal reporting, medical reviews and public “Detainee Death Reports” within statutory...