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Investigations and reforms related to deaths in ICE custody from 2015 to 2021
From the available public reporting, precise, independently compiled year-by-year counts of custody for each year 2009–2017 are not fully reproduced in the supplied sources, but official ICE and third...
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...
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...
The number of people who have died while in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody since ICE’s formation in 2003 is not a single, undisputed figure: government FOIA lists and agency re...
Three major oversight actors— (and its research partners), the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General (), and the Government Accountability Office ()/ional inquiries—have each exa...
currently treats a “death in custody” as any death that occurs while an individual is detained under ICE authority and triggers internal notification, medical review and a public Detainee Death Report...
Since 2020 families and advocacy groups have used a mix of civil lawsuits, and public complaints to demand accountability for custody, with the most visible actions driven or amplified by national gro...
After high-profile clusters of deaths in ICE custody beginning with investigative reports around 2015, lawmakers and the agency implemented limited transparency and procedural changes—most notably pub...