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The process and transparency of reporting deaths in ICE custody, including the requirements and controversies surrounding the practice.
Public reporting does not provide a single, definitive tally of how many people died in custody during ’s time in office; journalists and researchers note that the spike in (30–32 deaths) exceeded the...
treats an “in‑custody” death as any death of a person while under its custody — including deaths at facilities and those who die in hospitals while still detained — and requires rapid internal notific...
— the joint 2016 report by the , and the — defines and tallies deaths by examining specific in-custody fatalities and the agency documents and inspections tied to them, focusing particularly on eight ...
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...
’s public criteria treat a death as “in custody” when the person is under ICE supervision — whether at a detention facility, a field office, or while hospitalized after transfer — and the agency requi...
and maintain separate death-reporting streams: ICE publishes a dedicated “” reporting system and policy for deaths that occur while individuals are in ICE custody, while CBP’s reporting is folded into...
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 ...