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The use of FOIA requests to obtain documents related to deaths in ICE custody.
The definitive public repository for ) detainee death reports is ICE’s “” page on ICE.gov, where individual Detainee Death Reports (DDRs) and related announcements are posted pursuant to a congression...
The federal records published under list every death in its custody and include a "final cause of death" entry, but the materials provided here contain only partial year-by-year totals for 2009–2016; ...
During , advocacy groups and independent reviewers counted in custody, including at least six suicides, and multiple independent analyses concluded that substandard medical care contributed to a subse...
The available reporting shows that advocacy groups using records counted during the , and that six of those were recorded as suicides . Beyond that clear suicide count, public documents and investigat...
publishes a downloadable set of formal "" on its website covering deaths beginning with Fiscal Year 2018, alongside newsroom "Detainee Death Notifications" that appear as press releases . There is no ...
’s own public reporting has documented dozens of deaths in custody since 2003, and independent trackers point to a small number of detention sites that appear repeatedly in those records; advocates’ a...
ICE defines an "in‑custody" death as the death of an individual while under ICE custody regardless of where the death occurs, and the agency has a formal directive laying out notification, review and ...