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The majority of deaths in ICE custody between 2017 and 2021 were found to be preventable or possibly preventable by independent reviewers.
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 ...
The — that 95 percent of deaths in detention “could likely have been prevented” — comes from a joint // report that reviewed 52 deaths in ICE custody from 2017–2021 and applied independent medical exp...
From the record assembled by researchers and advocacy groups, whom reported as dying in custody between Jan. 1, 2017 and Dec. 31, 2021 are the baseline figure most independent investigators use for th...
The most robust, peer‑reviewed figure places the long‑term average number of deaths in ICE custody at roughly nine per federal fiscal year — specifically a mean of 8.9 deaths annually from FY2010–2019...