Mortality Rates in U.S. Immigration Detention (2003-2023)

How have death rates per 100,000 detainees changed across Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations, and what methodological caveats affect those comparisons?

A clear long‑run decline in measured in —when measured on a person‑year basis—was documented from the mid‑2000s through the 2010s, but pandemic and post‑pandemic metrics using different denominators s...