How many people died in ice custody in 2026
Official reporting shows a small but concerning tally of custody in the opening weeks of 2026: government releases documented four deaths during January 3–9, a subsequent ICE notice announced a death ...
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The quality of medical care provided to people in ICE custody and its relation to deaths in custody.
Official reporting shows a small but concerning tally of custody in the opening weeks of 2026: government releases documented four deaths during January 3–9, a subsequent ICE notice announced a death ...
Official tallies exist but they are unevenly reported and have been interpreted differently by watchdogs, researchers and advocates; ICE and DHS publish lists and death reviews, scholars compute rates...
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...
The report , produced by the , and the , documents a pattern of clinically significant medical failures at multiple facilities during the years and finds that ICE’s own inspection system repeatedly fa...
Medical examiners have infrequently ruled deaths in custody to be homicides, but recent high-profile cases — notably a Cuban detainee in and the fatal shooting of — have thrust those rulings into nati...
A review of the reporting shows no documented case in the provided sources of an ICE agent being killed by an undocumented immigrant or by a U.S. citizen; deaths connected to ICE in recent years inste...