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The reporting of detainee deaths by ICE, including the discrepancy between ICE's own reporting and that of outside sources.
ICE publishes individual detainee death reports and a death-reporting policy, but the sources provided do not contain a single, official year-by-year tally from 2000 through 2025; available reporting ...
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...
The public record assembled by reporters, advocacy groups and ICE itself does not contain a complete, year-by-year table of official causes of death in ICE custody for 2018–2025 or a definitive count ...
A complete, year‑by‑year list of deaths in ICE custody can be compiled by systematically harvesting ICE’s Detainee Death Reporting page and the agency’s FOIA Library, then cross‑validating those items...
A reliable, continuous public record of -reported begins with Fiscal Year (FY) 2018, per the appropriations reporting requirement; ICE’s own “” portal publishes individual death reports from FY2018 fo...
and a formal reporting policy, but the reporting available in the supplied sources does not include a consolidated, source-verifiable year-by-year table for 2003–2025; independent outlets and watchdog...
Independent, external autopsies or truly external investigations into the 30–32 deaths in custody in 2025 are limited and uneven: families, advocacy groups and local medical examiners have produced or...
A reliable, complete year-by-year tally of noncitizen detainee deaths in for is not available in the supplied reporting; public sources converge only on recent totals and on the fact that 2025 was the...
Independent reviews and advocacy analyses of “detainee death reviews” covering roughly 2010–2015 found that likely contributed to multiple deaths: the // flagged eight deaths from 2010–2012 in which I...
publicly confirmed that was the deadliest year for people in its custody in two decades, reporting roughly 31–32 deaths in that calendar year—far higher than recent years—and agency reporting practice...