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The use of FOIA data and death reports to calculate the number of deaths in ICE custody.
The short answer: multiple reputable reports and advocacy groups have reported that 56 people died while in custody during , but that number is not a single, uncontested official toll — it reflects a ...
A 2025 coalition report, Fatal Neglect, counted in custody during based on and highlighted eight emblematic cases that it argues show ; the report names specific facility failures including at where d...
Independent trackers — including , the and investigative media — consistently report more custody than the agency’s official tallies; researchers attribute the gap to differing definitions of “in cust...
Available reporting establishes that 2025 was the deadliest year for people in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody in roughly two decades, with major outlets reporting a year-end to...
Official / records do exist that enumerate through mid‑2017 and include nationality/citizenship fields, but the specific year‑by‑year counts broken down by citizenship for 2009–2017 are not fully repr...
The official FOIA PDFs titled “ Custody” can be downloaded directly from ICE’s FOIA reading room and from specific archived PDF links that ICE has published , and independent organizations such as hav...
and enacted a patchwork of reporting and review requirements after 2016 intended to force greater transparency about custody — including statutory deadlines to publish initial notice and fuller death ...
The most robust, peer‑reviewed figure places the long‑term average number of deaths in ICE custody at roughly nine per federal fiscal year — specifically a mean of 8.9 deaths annually from FY2010–2019...