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His asylum officer determined that he had a "credible fear" of returning, but ICE, in keeping with Trump administration policy, kept him in custody at the Adams County Correctional Facility in Natchez, Mississippi. (thedailybeast.com)
The Mississippi detainees typically passed 31 days in custody before ICE filed their deportation charges with the court during the year that ended Sept. 30, according to a Daily Beast analysis of data kept by the Executive Office of Immigration Review, the Justice Department agency that runs the immigration courts. (thedailybeast.com)
This report covers those who left ICE custody. (syr.edu)
This is a follow-up to an earlier FOIA request by HRC in July for all records related to the death of Roxana Hernández, a transgender woman, while in the custody of ICE and CBP. (hrc.org)
She was held for five days by CBP before being processed into the United States and put into ICE custody in San Diego. (hrc.org)
Migrants in ICE custody in New Mexico were attacked with pepper spray on May 14, 2020, to end a days-long hunger strike. (prisonlegalnews.org)
In the face of this pandemic, expanding testing for detainees is another proactive step ICE is taking to safeguard those in our custody," said Henry Lucero, executive associate director for ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations. (ice.gov)
The deteriorating conditions caused a federal judge to order ICE to release all children held in their custody in order to protect them from the virus. (feminist.org)
ICE has defended its actions , stating that "the agency has taken steps to protect detainees in its custody and promote social distancing whenever possible. (feminist.org)
Jordan said one of the plaintiffs, Edelberto Garcia Guerrero, held in the ICE detention facility in Aurora, Colorado , complains of untreated injuries from an assault while in custody. (cpr.org)
ICE spokesperson, Shawn Neudauer, said he can't comment on pending litigation, but that quote "comprehensive medical care is provided to all individuals in ICE custody. (cpr.org)
Neudauer added that "pursuant to its commitment to the welfare of those in the agency's custody, ICE spends more than $250 million annually on the spectrum of health care services provided to detainees. (cpr.org)
The family of Garfield Green, an amputee with severe diabetes, wonders how long he'll last in ICE custody. (miaminewtimes.com)
Garfield Green, an amputee with diabetes, is fighting deportation while in ICE custody in Miami-Dade County. (miaminewtimes.com)
During his time in ICE custody, guards broke Green's prosthetic leg when he was transferred to another ICE jail in Cottonwood Falls, Kansas, before being sent to Krome in Florida, according to Matthew Hoppock, a Shawnee, Kansas-based immigration attorney handling Green's appeal to reopen his immigration case. (miaminewtimes.com)
After all, why discuss the two million criminal aliens fueling the drug and gang crisis, not to mention identity theft, when you can focus on illegal aliens dying in ICE custody? (theblaze.com)
The latest attack on ICE comes from USA Today's Alan Gomez , who published an article yesterday titled, "Migrant in ICE custody removed from life support over family's objections. (theblaze.com)
The only reason [someone is] even in ICE custody is because they weren't born in the United States. (bronxdefenders.org)
Previous hunger strikes erupted last week at three ICE detention centers in New Jersey after a guard was positively diagnosed with COVID-19, and dozens of organizations across the country have demanded the immediate release of detainees from ICE custody to prevent a humanitarian disaster. (nowcrj.org)
The nurse, Dawn Wooten, as well as several immigrant women, claimed that an apparently high rate of hysterectomies were performed on immigrant women while in ICE custody at Irwin County Detention Center, and that some of the women did not understand the procedure they were receiving. (angelusnews.com)
EUNICE CHO: ICE had no plan whatsoever to secure vaccines or provide vaccines for people in custody in detention centers. (wrvo.org)
TROVALL: When I ask the Texas Department of State Health Services, which is in charge of statewide vaccine allocation, at first they told me it's not their job to provide health care for people in federal custody like ICE detainees. (wrvo.org)
Delivery bonds are posted when a person has been taken into ICE custody and placed into removal proceedings while in the United States. (ice.gov)
People in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody participate in outdoor recreational activities at the Winn Correctional Center, a for-profit prison in Louisiana used by ICE, in September. (motherjones.com)
Unlike with deaths in ICE custody, the agency does not have a policy of disclosing uses of force, including the use of chemical agents, so it's possible that some incidents have gone unreported. (motherjones.com)
For many people in ICE custody, the sense that neither deportation nor release is imminent is deepening a feeling of being trapped. (motherjones.com)
Ernest explained that he was healthy when he entered ICE custody but now suffers from depression and high blood pressure. (motherjones.com)
Two guards at the jail died in late April and at least two people in ICE custody at Richwood were hospitalized with COVID-19. (motherjones.com)
ICE revealed Friday that only about 1 percent of the roughly 32,000 people in its custody have been tested. (motherjones.com)
ICE has largely refused to exercise its broad authority to release people from custody to protect them from the pandemic. (motherjones.com)

According to information provided by the Department in response to a request by Rep. Kathleen Rice, LGBTQ immigrants are detained twice as long as other immigrants and also face lengthy stays in solitary confinement despite ICE regulations that stipulate its use as a last resort. (hrc.org)
As Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detains more immigrants than ever before, detention centers have filed more reports of detainees being held in solitary confinement, according to federal records obtained by the Project On Government Oversight (POGO). (pogo.org)
In 2015, he and then-Senator Al Franken (D-MN) wrote that information they obtained suggested "that ICE continues to place many detainees with mental health concerns in administrative or disciplinary segregation-also known as solitary confinement-contrary to agency directives. (pogo.org)
ICE detention centers across the country use solitary confinement to house detainees with mental illness and other vulnerabilities apart from the general population. (pogo.org)
After the women's video went viral on social media and YouTube, ICE retaliated by subjecting the women to solitary confinement (a method they often employ to reprimand detainees). (fairplanet.org)
The government audit concluded GEO Group guards improperly handcuffed and shackled detainees, unnecessarily placed detainees in solitary confinement and failed to provide adequate medical care. (advocatehealthyu.com)
On Friday evening, a Guatemalan man told me he spent three nights last week in solitary confinement at an ICE detention facility after developing a fever. (motherjones.com)

Prior to implementation of expanded testing, facilities must ensure that staff have the proper personal protective equipment to ensure safety during testing and that operational plans are in place to properly house detainees based on test results. (ice.gov)
Eisen says now ICE is capitalizing on that available space, contracting with those same rural county jails to house detainees, whose numbers are increasing: Just last week, ICE arrested 680 workers during raids on food processing plants in Mississippi. (aijustice.org)

In 2020, mass hunger strikes at Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center and Winn Correctional Center were reportedly quashed with the use of pepper spray and alleged excessive force. (wrkf.org)
Salomon Diego Alonso was separated from his daughter after U.S. immigration officials arrested him near Forest, Miss., during the Aug. 7 chicken-plant raids and housed him in a Louisiana ICE detention facility, where he became ill with COVID-19 in April 2020. (mississippifreepress.org)

The hunger strike over food conditions was already underway when COVID-19 cases started to rise, and detainees' fears of the virus spread increased their determination to press their case. (prisonlegalnews.org)
Roughly 300 detainees at another Geo Group facility in Jena, Louisiana attempted to stage a hunger strike in late February. (wrkf.org)
Roughly 300 detainees in a Louisiana Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Jena attempted to stage a hunger strike recently, according to a press release from Detention Watch Network . (wrkf.org)
Spokespeople from ICE and from GEO Group - the company that operates the facility - refute that a hunger strike took place at the detention center. (wrkf.org)
Both groups in separate emails cited ICE's Performance Based National Detention Standards, which classify a hunger strike as detainees refusing meals for 72 hours or nine consecutive meals. (wrkf.org)
Julio said the hunger strike attempt was also organized due to detainees not receiving adequate personal hygiene items - specifically, shampoo, toilet paper, toothbrushes and toothpaste - sometimes waiting for hours for toiletries that they need to get clean for the day and not having bags for trash on the weekends. (wrkf.org)
RICHWOOD, LA- Migrants detained at the Richwood Detention Center outside Monroe, Louisiana entered the fourth day of a hunger strike protesting conditions at the facility and inaction by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the face of the novel coronavirus pandemic Thursday. (nowcrj.org)
Immigrant rights advocates in Louisiana and Mississippi called for the release of the hunger strikers and all migrants detained by ICE after receiving calls from detainees reporting that unsanitary conditions had led sixty detainees to begin a hunger strike over the weekend. (nowcrj.org)
F, a detainee in Richwood Detention Center, said in a recorded call that when he and other detainees went on hunger strike guards turned off the televisions that usually broadcast news and "ICE came and told us that the news is all lies…to not believe the news. (nowcrj.org)
That detained migrants have decided the best choice for their health is to go on hunger strike demonstrates how unfit ICE is to be responsible for the health and wellbeing of any human being," said Rocio Aguilar, an organizer with the Congress of Day Laborers (a project of the New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice). (nowcrj.org)
In July 2018, sixty ICE detainees went on a hunger strike. (prisonlegalnews.org)
In 2014, amid a hunger strike by detainees, immigrant rights activists tried to convince the governor's office and the state Department of Labor and Industries that detainees should be paid minimum wage for work performed there. (americanjournalnews.com)

Immigration attorney Mich Gonzalez with Southern Poverty Law says ICE's New Orleans Field office has been holding, moving and releasing detainees under conditions that are not pandemic safe. (nhpr.org)
ICE must grant humanitarian parole to the hunger strikers and all migrants in detention before the COVID-19 pandemic turns into an unprecedented public health catastrophe within their facilities. (nowcrj.org)
The incident is the latest in an extensive pattern of Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees being pepper-sprayed as they push for their release and safer conditions during the coronavirus pandemic. (motherjones.com)
After nearly four years of litigation and pandemic-related delays, a trial is underway to determine whether the GEO Group must pay minimum wage to detainees who perform cooking, cleaning, and other tasks at its immigration detention center in Washington state. (americanjournalnews.com)
It can now hold 1,575 detainees, though because of pandemic-related concerns the population recently was about 250. (americanjournalnews.com)

It was later on that I heard that force was being applied on them," he said, referring to allegations now under federal investigation: that officers on rotation from ICE's New Orleans field office assaulted eight Cameroonian detainees, "beating up the men and forcing them to sign travel documents" for their deportation, as a civil-rights complaint asserts. (thedailybeast.com)
During the Trump administration, both the New Orleans and New York ICE field offices have jailed nearly everyone they've arrested pending deportation without giving proper consideration to release, federal judges have found in separate cases. (thedailybeast.com)
Since arriving at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility nearly two years ago, the 48-year-old Jamaican amputee has experienced severe medical neglect and inadequate care resulting in painful sores, a worsening heart condition, and depression, according to family members and an advocacy group fighting his imminent deportation. (miaminewtimes.com)
Those held at the facility include asylum seekers, individuals caught up in raids, and others identified by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as eligible for deportation. (immigrationimpact.com)
A detainee, who is going by the alias Julio for fear of retaliation for speaking out, said people are being deported a month and a half to three months after they receive their final deportation notices. (wrkf.org)
ICE did not directly address the question of long waits for deportation but sent information about how complex the process can be. (wrkf.org)
Although many immigrant rights groups from Northern California were represented at the Yuba County Jail Saturday - where there are about 180 detainees being held for ICE for deportation - the focus was on the concentration camps that held Japanese Americans during World War II. (davisvanguard.org)
Former detainees of Immigration and Customs Enforcement accuse the agency in a lawsuit of forcibly injecting them with psychotropic drugs while trying to shuttle them out of the country during their deportation. (immigrantconnect.com)
ICE swiftly and abruptly deported five immigrants from the Essex County Correctional Facility and moved 49 to staging areas to be prepared for deportation on Tuesday. (documentedny.com)

Ryan Gustin said on the company's behalf that officers pepper-sprayed "a group of detainees who became disruptive by refusing to comply with verbal directives provided by staff. (prisonlegalnews.org)
The pepper-spraying, he said, only "occurred only after a group of detainees refused repeated commands from facility staff and only after numerous attempts to verbally deescalate the situation were unsuccessful. (motherjones.com)
He added, "however, to maintain orderly facility operations and protect the health and safety of all persons a brief calculated use of [pepper] s pray was deployed against the group of detainees who refused to comply with directives from facility staff. (motherjones.com)

and, in the case of transgender detainees, being housed with detainees of a gender with which they do not identify. (huffpost.com)

There was considerable variability among detainees in the number of detention facilities they had been held in before they were finally deported or released from this facility. (syr.edu)
A report on ICE facilities by the Inspector General found that "facilities reported concerns with their inability to practice social distancing among detainees, and to isolate or quarantine individuals who may be infected with COVID-19. (feminist.org)

But EOIR data collected by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse at Syracuse University suggests that may be more egregious for Adams County detainees than nearly anywhere else in the country, as four out of five detainees there who appeal ICE's decision to an immigration judge qualify to be granted bond. (thedailybeast.com)
Louisiana immigrant detention facilities have seen several hunger strikes from detainees in recent years, including one at the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center in 2019, in which five detainees were force-hydrated after refusing to eat for two months. (wrkf.org)

The massive influx of both refugees and asylum seekers will exacerbate the short-staffed prisons, endangering the lives of Correctional Officers, inmates, detainees, and the surrounding communities as the Bureau of Prisons scrambles to get prepared. (afge.org)
ICE also said they would have translators sent to the prison "when needed," but otherwise correctional workers will deal with a large, diverse, non-English speaking population housed in the same prison conditions as current inmates. (afge.org)
Reports emerging from ICE facilities throughout the country reveal that inmates have been protesting their maltreatment and that ICE guards retaliate with brutal crackdowns and punishments against those attempting to stand up for their rights. (fairplanet.org)
It is estimated that over 30,000 immigrants are currently held at ICE detention centres across the U.S., and while the agency reportedly released some inmates that were sick or vulnerable to contracting or transmitting the coronavirus, the decision making process in this regard has been highly opaque and arbitrary. (fairplanet.org)
As of now, ICE has shown no intention of releasing the vast majority of inmates, even though most of them do not pose a risk to the public, have not committed criminal offences, and are not subject to mandatory detention orders. (fairplanet.org)
Conditions at ICE facilities and treatment of detainees have been abhorrent long before the advent of coronavirus, and have elicited both the wrath of human rights organisations and protests by inmates. (fairplanet.org)
Immigrants detained at ICE prisons also claim that those of them who exhibit signs of COVID-19 are often not granted proper medical attention in a timely manner, and that now that inmates aren't allowed to work in kitchens (for sanitary reasons) they often do not get enough food. (fairplanet.org)
A separate investigation by The Intercept indicated that female inmates at a different ICE facility in Georgia filmed themselves describing the over-crowded and poor sanitary conditions at their prison. (fairplanet.org)
Continuing education of inmates, detainees, and correctional facility staff is necessary to maximize cooperation and participation. (cdc.gov)

The committee staff focused much of its efforts on immigrants in for-profit detention facilities and the deaths of immigrant detainees. (buzzfeednews.com)
But in fact, our detention system locks up thousands of immigrants unnecessarily every year, exposing detainees to brutal and inhumane conditions of confinement at massive costs to American taxpayers. (huffpost.com)
While the problem of sexual abuse of immigration detainees reaches far and wide , there are particularly vulnerable populations in detention including those with mental disabilities, asylum-seekers, torture survivors, women, children and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender ("LGBT") immigrants. (huffpost.com)
That is a mounting concern for those who advocate on behalf of immigrants, because detainees in rural areas are facing higher barriers to obtaining a lawyer, more likely to have their asylum cases denied and more likely to be deported to their home countries. (aijustice.org)
One speaker, Rev. Deborah Lee, Executive Director of Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity sees ICE detention of immigrants as "a modern form of slavery and the commodification of human life. (davisvanguard.org)
The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has held Alonso at the private prison in Monroe, La., since ICE agents arrested him during a series of raids targeting undocumented immigrants working at Mississippi chicken plants last August. (mississippifreepress.org)
Alonso's wife and children did not identify themselves by name, but the Immigrant Alliance of Justice and Equity told the Mississippi Free Press that the family lives near Forest, where ICE arrested a number of immigrants who worked at a chicken plant in Morton last year. (mississippifreepress.org)
In late March, the alliance and other immigrants-rights supporters, including U.S. Congressman Bennie Thompson of Mississippi, began urging ICE to release immigrants and allow them to serve home detention, as most did before the Trump administration began prioritizing mass detention at privately run facilities. (mississippifreepress.org)
Across the U.S., prisons have become breeding grounds for COVID-19, and immigrants held at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities have been particularly vulnerable to the ravages of the disease. (fairplanet.org)

The agency's full response to COVID-19 can be viewed at ICE.gov/coronavirus . (ice.gov)
By Friday morning, ICE reported that at least 105 of its detainees had tested positive for the novel coronavirus, including two in the Monroe facility. (mississippifreepress.org)
On Thursday, the Immigrant Alliance of Justice and Equity released an open letter to Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves, who supports Trump's hardline immigration policies, calling on him to support not only the release of all ICE detainees, but to release prisoners in Mississippi's state and county prisons and jails, which have reported numerous novel coronavirus cases in recent weeks. (mississippifreepress.org)
According to data published by ICE, 606 detainees tested positive for coronavirus as of May 4, but it is estimated that the actual number could be significantly higher seeing as test results are not delivered in real-time. (fairplanet.org)

For example, during a four-week period starting July 13, court calendars show that detainees had lawyers for 85 percent of the 176 New York proceedings, but just 31 percent for the 184 hearings beamed in from the Mississippi jail. (thedailybeast.com)
She said another Colorado plaintiff, Hamida Ali, who is held in the Teller County jail (a facility that rents out beds to ICE), complains of prolonged periods of isolation exacerbating her mental health disability. (cpr.org)
The ACLU is demanding the release of about 130 detainees held at the Calhoun County Jail. (wkmi.com)
A group of protesters recently raised attention to the detainees at the Calhoun County jail, claiming they are not criminals and should be released because of the potential of their contracting the COVID-19 virus. (wkmi.com)
The group believes the potential of contracting the virus in jail is reason enough to release the ICE detainees. (wkmi.com)
The House Oversight Committee has found that ICE detainees died after receiving inadequate medical care and that jail staff "falsified records to cover up" issues, according to a report released on Thursday. (buzzfeednews.com)
The U.S. public tends to think that ICE detention is like jail or prison: a place where people go if they've been charged with or convicted for a crime. (bronxdefenders.org)
In reality, ICE only has the authority to jail detain people who committed a civil violation - namely, violating immigration laws. (bronxdefenders.org)
ICE said the movement of detainees from the jail "was part of routine operations within the Newark ERO field office. (documentedny.com)
G-28s should be submitted to [email protected] for all non-citizens detained at the Orange County Jail. (ice.gov)
Val Ribeiro, an immigration attorney, said the lack of sufficient medical treatment has been "a consistent problem" for her clients, who are ICE detainees held at the jail. (prisonlegalnews.org)
Bristol County also contracts with ICE to house an undisclosed number of immigrant detainees at the jail. (prisonlegalnews.org)
At Least 20 People Have COVID-19 at One ICE Jail. (motherjones.com)

WASHINGTON - U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) began voluntary COVID-19 testing June 2 at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, Washington, and began offering voluntary COVID-19 testing Tuesday at the Aurora Contract Detention Facility in Aurora, Colorado, to all current detainees and new admissions to the facilities. (ice.gov)
At Northwest ICE Processing Center, 450 of the 570 detainees housed there volunteered to be tested for COVID-19, with all but one test result coming back negative. (ice.gov)
A detainee receives dental treatment at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in California, a facility privately operated by the Geo Group, in 2019. (buzzfeednews.com)
Detainees talk on telephones at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in California. (buzzfeednews.com)
The report also highlighted the death of Kamyar Samimi, a 64-year-old man who died in late 2017 at the Aurora ICE Processing Center in Colorado, which is operated by Geo Group. (buzzfeednews.com)
In this file photo, barbed wire surrounds the South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Basile, Louisiana. (wrkf.org)
one at the LaSalle ICE Processing Center in Jena, La. (mississippifreepress.org)
and four at the Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center in Pine Prairie, La. (mississippifreepress.org)
They're working to replace the income of José Contreras, who has been held since last June at Southern California's Adelanto ICE Processing Center, a privately run immigration detention center. (advocatehealthyu.com)

ICE officials in the region began systematically denying parole requests in 2018, dropping parole grant rates from over 90% ten years ago to around 1% in 2018 and 2019. (nowcrj.org)

However, we can examine whether the Kidspeace was the first ICE facility in which these detainees were held. (syr.edu)
In Farmville, a Virginia ICE detention center, all those held at the facility were tested for COVID-19 after a number of new detainees tested positive for the virus. (feminist.org)
The records show that some detainees were held in solitary for months, and in some cases, for more than a year. (pogo.org)
One detainee was held in solitary for more than two years. (pogo.org)
The detainee was being held at the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego. (theblaze.com)
The federal lawsuit involves detainees being held for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). (wkmi.com)
Julio said detainees' cases have constantly been held up in immigration courts, with many having their court appointments canceled or rescheduled. (wrkf.org)
To those who were held in those camps, and their descendants, the ICE camps are all too familiar. (davisvanguard.org)
Mother Jones had conducted several interviews with female detainees held at the LaSalle ICE detention facility, all of whom shared harrowing accounts of their mistreatment, neglect and abuse by the prison authorities. (fairplanet.org)
A state law passed in 2017 directs the state to inspect and report on the treatment of immigrant detainees held in California. (advocatehealthyu.com)
The Richwood detainees who've tested positive are being held together in another dorm. (motherjones.com)

The disparities the Adams County detainees face highlight the larger problems with a vast network of immigration jails the Trump administration built in Louisiana and Mississippi starting in mid-2018. (thedailybeast.com)
From April 2011 through September 2018, her group organized monthly vigils at the ICE detention center in Richmond, CA before it ended its contract with ICE. (davisvanguard.org)
ICE health services director Dr. Ada Rivera has said that only two women have been referred for hysterectomies at Irwin County Detention Center since 2018. (angelusnews.com)

During the most recent 12 month period for which data are available, a total of 183 detainees housed at the Kidspeace left that facility because they were deported, were released under supervision while their cases were being decided, or left ICE detention for one of a variety of other reasons. (syr.edu)
Those individuals who departed from this facility because they were leaving ICE detention made up 93 percent of the 197 detainees housed at this facility during the last 12 months. (syr.edu)
This report series is based upon analyses conducted by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University of 1.7 million government records tracking each individual who passed through an ICE detention facility during fiscal year 2015. (syr.edu)
The remaining 87 percent had been transferred in from another ICE detention facility. (syr.edu)
The issuance of an order to release the detainee was the most common reason why individuals were recorded as leaving ICE detention from this facility. (syr.edu)
The detainees, housed at Torrance County Detention Facility, privately run by CoreCivic, were protesting the food quality and lack of protection from COVID-19. (prisonlegalnews.org)
Testing at Aurora Contract Detention Facility was offered to all ICE detainees at the facility with results expected within a week. (ice.gov)
The full-facility test was not conducted until July 2, although the new COVID-19 positive detainees arrived at the facility a month earlier. (feminist.org)
Although ICE claims that "the health, welfare and safety of … detainees is one of the agency's highest priorities," those detained at the facility have described conditions in which social distancing has become almost impossible and those with COVID-19 symptoms are only given Tylenol. (feminist.org)
In May 2021, when his sentence was completed, Green's U.S. residency was revoked and he was transferred to an immigration detention facility in Kansas City, Missouri, according to court documents and an ICE spokesperson. (miaminewtimes.com)
Nebane Abienwi, 37, a father of six who fled his embattled country this summer, died Oct. 1 after suffering a 'medical emergency' while being detained at the Otay Mesa Detention Center, a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in San Diego, according to ICE. (theblaze.com)
In the case of Abienwi, he did not die in an ICE facility, rather in a local hospital, which is what one would expect. (theblaze.com)
ICE in conjunction with the medical provider, shall provide family members and any others as much opportunity for visitation as possible, in keeping with the safety, security and good order of the facility. (theblaze.com)
The report cited the whistleblower memo obtained by BuzzFeed News that stated that "ICE health officials were 'informed of multiple concerns regarding the care provided at the facility, particularly the facility's psychiatrist misdiagnosing, failing to treat detainees appropriately, and the lack of readily available emergency medications. (buzzfeednews.com)
The committee obtained an ICE death review and the Department of Homeland Security's Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties report on the matter, both of which documented deficiencies at the facility. (buzzfeednews.com)
For example, the ICE report found that facility staff "failed to transfer Samimi to an ER even though he exhibited life-threatening withdrawal symptoms during the week following his intake," and that nurses in charge of his care were not trained in understanding opioid withdrawal symptoms. (buzzfeednews.com)
Heights residents aid asylum seekers at ICE facility in Ga. (heightsobserver.org)
Ohio's first Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainee, Oscar Lopez Acosta, died earlier this week from COVID-19 after being detained at the Morrow County Correctional Facility. (osu.edu)
A local official there told me they hadn't heard from the state or the facility, so those detainees haven't been vaccinated. (wrvo.org)
A joint investigation by The Intercept and The Takeaway revealed that at an ICE detention facility in Georgia, migrants protested twice in April after some of them were denied adequate medical attention and meals became insufficient and infrequent. (fairplanet.org)
There was a family-friendly event with food and games for children in a downtown Folkston park, and also a protest across the street from the ICE facility. (workers.org)
An ICE spokesperson said, in an emailed statement, that the GEO Group's Adelanto facility is in "full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. (advocatehealthyu.com)
If you need information about a detainee that is housed at this facility, you may call (845) 291-7758 or (845) 291-7760 between the hours of 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. (ice.gov)
He described guards at Richwood, a for-profit facility run by LaSalle Corrections under a contract with ICE, shaking cans of pepper spray as they approached him and other protesters. (motherjones.com)

Enforcement and Removal Operations is focused on smart, effective immigration enforcement that protects the homeland through the arrest and removal of those who undermine the safety of our communities and the integrity of our immigration laws," an Ice spokesperson said in an email. (wrkf.org)
ICE spokesperson Bryan Cox confirmed the pepper-spraying, but he said in an email that the two men's accounts left out "critical information. (motherjones.com)

When asked about the conditions he was experiencing, one detainee, using the pseudonym Bobby, called them "inhumane. (feminist.org)

According to officials, staff at Victorville who are not Correctional Officers (e.g. accountants, teachers, food service workers) will be "augmented" and tasked to work as officers to oversee the detainees and prisoners. (afge.org)
I can't believe that we are going to house 1,000 detainees alongside violent prisoners without proper screening, adequate staffing, or a plan that will protect the lives of our law enforcement officers," he said. (afge.org)
A separate investigation of Adelanto and other immigration detention facilities in California released in February by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra found similar health and safety problems and concluded that detainees were treated like prisoners, some kept in their cells for 22 hours a day, even though they have not been charged with a crime. (advocatehealthyu.com)
And while the state's minimum wage law exempts prisoners of government-owned detention facilities, it makes no such exemption for detainees at private ones. (americanjournalnews.com)

ICE also reported to Representative Rice that LGBTQ people accounted for only .14 percent of the people detained by ICE in 2017, but made up 12 percent of reported sexual assault and abuse cases. (hrc.org)
The inspectors found guards overlooked the nooses even though a detainee had committed suicide using a bedsheet in 2017 and several others had attempted suicide using a similar method. (advocatehealthyu.com)
Attorney General Bob Ferguson and some detainees filed separate lawsuits against GEO in 2017, arguing that the company's contract with the federal government requires it to follow state and local laws - including Washington's Minimum Wage Act - and that GEO, one of the nation's largest private detention companies, unjustly profited by paying so little. (americanjournalnews.com)
Se realizaron entrevistas en los meses de agosto a diciembre de 2017, individuales y audiograbadas, siguiendo guion semiestructurado con 91 enfermeros que actuaban en el SAMU de ciudades del estado de Paraíba, Brasil. (bvsalud.org)

The guards laugh at them and call them 'suicide failures' once they are back from medical," the detainee said. (immigrationimpact.com)
She said that when Valladares arrived at Krome, only the guards there were wearing masks, not the detainees. (aijustice.org)
ICE guards retaliated by blasting protesters with pepper spray and firing away at them with pepper ball guns. (fairplanet.org)
At least one detainee claimed that guards pepper-sprayed him when he did not stand up, and a second time while he tried to hang himself. (advocatehealthyu.com)

The case argues that ICE isn't providing adequate medical care and puts detainees in isolation arbitrarily and as punishment. (cpr.org)
He also said ICE detention facilities keep detainees in isolation at a lower rate than the country's non-immigration-related prison facilities. (cpr.org)
NPR analysis of publicly available ICE data on COVID-19 online shows the weekly percentage of COVID-19 positive detainees in monitoring or isolation has more than doubled since June from 2% of the population to around 6% as of last week. (nhpr.org)

The others remained in ICE detention but were transferred from the Kidspeace to other facilities. (syr.edu)
It excludes individuals transferred to other ICE facilities. (syr.edu)
The Kidspeace was one of 637 facilities nationwide that housed ICE detainees during the most recent 12 month period. (syr.edu)
Excluding those facilities with fewer than 10 exits, the Kidspeace last year ranked in the top 43 percent nationwide in the number of individuals leaving ICE detention. (syr.edu)
The number of facilities ranged as high as 3 separate locations for some detainees. (syr.edu)
For the United States as a whole, last year the average number of ICE facilities detainees moved through was 1.8. (syr.edu)
Detainees at the Kidspeace on average had stayed at somewhat more (1.9) ICE facilities. (syr.edu)
Hoffman, who has worked at immigrant facilities in Texas and Georgia before coming to Ohio, said he was not aware of any detainees sent to Youngstown who have been released. (wvxu.org)
ICE policy allows for the use of pepper spray to "gain control" of detainees, as long as detention facilities keep records of any such uses of force. (prisonlegalnews.org)
ICE continues to demonstrate its commitment to the health and welfare of detainees and staff at our facilities by developing, implementing and refining protocols to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. (ice.gov)
ICE plans to evaluate COVID-19 testing at the initial two locations before expanding to other ICE detention facilities over the next several months. (ice.gov)
Three people detained by ICE have died from COVID-19 and ICE reports a total of 3,496 cases across their facilities. (feminist.org)
Shortly after COVID-19 first hit the U.S., the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, or ICE, emptied its detention facilities to help slow the outbreak. (nhpr.org)
He also says it's hard to fully analyze ICE data because the same principles used to study public health can't be applied to disease in correctional facilities. (nhpr.org)
The report also frequently cited in its findings a memo obtained by BuzzFeed News that revealed a whistleblower's complaint alleging that care at several facilities overseen by ICE was so dire, it resulted in two preventable surgeries, including an 8-year-old boy who had to have part of his forehead removed, and contributed to four deaths. (buzzfeednews.com)
The ACLU recently unveiled government documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act which show the widespread, systemic nature of sexual abuse of detainees in immigration detention facilities. (huffpost.com)
The ACLU of Arizona documented five cases involving transgender or gay detainees who were sexually assaulted or treated in an abusive manner while in detention in Arizona facilities. (huffpost.com)
In an emailed statement, a spokesman said ICE considers proximity to airports, health care and legal resources when selecting facilities. (aijustice.org)
TROVALL: I went back to the Texas Health Department, and they changed their tune, saying that since mid-March they had actually approved two vaccine transfers to ICE facilities. (wrvo.org)
Reports indicate that the authorities at ICE facilities have not taken proper measures to protect their populations from the virus. (fairplanet.org)
April 16 - Multiple organizations forming the Coalition to Shut Down ICE in Georgia have been giving special attention to the expansion of the Folkston ICE facilities in southeast Georgia, close to the Florida border. (workers.org)
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement requires private detention facilities to operate work programs for detainees as a way to reduce their boredom and improve their morale, GEO argues. (americanjournalnews.com)

The humanitarian crisis denounced by the detainees in Richwood Detention Center is entirely preventable, since the vast majority of ICE detainees in Mississippi and Louisiana are already eligible for humanitarian parole. (nowcrj.org)
Interviews with Manuel and six other Richwood detainees suggest more are infected. (motherjones.com)
ICE and LaSalle Corrections, the private prison company that runs Richwood, did not respond to requests for comment. (motherjones.com)

One quarter of those roughly 4,000 records indicate the detainees in solitary had mental illness. (pogo.org)
Victorville is the largest recipient of detainees with roughly 1,000 scheduled to arrive in the next few days. (afge.org)

But in the last year, amid a surge of migrants crossing the southern border, ICE has detained tens of thousands of migrants. (nhpr.org)
Last week The Intercept reported a whistleblower complaint had been filed by several advocacy groups on behalf of a nurse at a U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center for migrants in Georgia. (angelusnews.com)

Brian Hoffman is an immigration attorney with the International Institute of Akron who was already working one day a week at the Northeast Ohio Correctional Center when about 130 male detainees from this month's raids arrived. (wvxu.org)
Detainees walk with their hands clasped behind their backs along a line painted on a walkway inside the Winn Correctional Center in Winnfield, La. (nhpr.org)
He can easily direct the hiring of more correctional officers to guard these detainees," said Young. (afge.org)
Immigration detainees sit in a yard at the Winn Correctional Center, a for-profit prison in Louisiana run by LaSalle Corrections, in September. (motherjones.com)

There are 6,559 records, each of which represents the confinement of a detainee in solitary (ICE has placed some detainees in solitary more than once). (pogo.org)

In September, after thousands of Louisiana detainees sued ICE for failing to follow its own parole regulations, a federal judge ordered ICE to resume processing and granting parole to asylum-seekers in the region's detention centers. (nowcrj.org)

The outbreak in Farmville seems to have originated when ICE moved 74 detainees from Florida and Arizona to Farmville without first quarantining them due to lack of space. (feminist.org)
Coalition members - who had come from across Georgia and north Florida - left inspired by the resistance of the detainees and vowing to redouble efforts to "Shut Down Folkston! (workers.org)

These detainees also had their family visitations revoked and were no longer allowed to purchase toiletries from the commissary, neither of which are listed as an available penalty in ICE's detention standards. (immigrationimpact.com)

This abuse and neglect are highlighted in a new report by the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General (OIG) and show how Adelanto staff's blatant disregard of federal detention standards created a dangerous environment for immigrant detainees. (immigrationimpact.com)

ICE Health Service Corps personnel notified detainees of their test results Monday. (ice.gov)
Civil rights groups have filed a class action lawsuit against Immigration and Customs Enforcement for failing to treat the medical and mental health needs of detainees. (cpr.org)
OIG officials found that staff physicians, nurses, and mental health providers did not perform their required daily one-on-one evaluations with detainees. (immigrationimpact.com)
Both internal reviews and detainee testimonials also showed that people waited months to see a doctor for persistent health problems and were not given their prescribed medication. (immigrationimpact.com)
OIG officials recommended ICE conduct a thorough investigation of the detention center to ensure the safety, rights, and health of detainees. (immigrationimpact.com)
When I asked ICE about their strategy, they told me it's up to state and local health departments to vaccinate detainees and that a limited number have begun to get vaccinated based on how many doses a state has and its priorities. (wrvo.org)
This 60-minute webinar reviews best practices for TB diagnosis and management for ICE detainees, the role of public health and community partners, and how care is coordinated for patients who are released. (cdc.gov)

The OIG report instructs ICE and GEO Group, the private prison company that operates the center and houses the 2,000 ICE detainees, to focus on three particular areas for immediate improvement . (immigrationimpact.com)

Earlier this year, the ACLU of Arizona released "In Their Own Words: Enduring Abuse in Arizona Immigration Detention Centers," which includes a section highlighting the array of problems confronting LGBT detainees. (huffpost.com)

The congressional investigators obtained an internal report from the DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties that found: "The failure to hire an effective and qualified clinical leader contributed to the inadequate detainee medical care that resulted in medical injuries, including bone deformities and detainee deaths, and continues to pose a risk to the safety of other detainees at ACF. (buzzfeednews.com)

ICE data show rapid declines and increases in the number of people with COVID-19 over time. (nhpr.org)

The audit also found some flights were redundant, with detainees transferred multiple times between the same cities in the U.S. The audit said 711,945 of the detainees in the 3.5 years were taken back to their home countries, but another 218,490 were shuttled between U.S. cities "for various reasons, including lack of bed space, immigration proceedings, medical needs, security concerns and other administrative reasons. (azpbs.org)
The company doesn't have a choice but to offer the program even if the tasks assigned are redundant or if the detainee lacks skill - "inefficiencies that would never be tolerated in an employee-employer relationship," GEO argued in a trial brief. (americanjournalnews.com)

One detainee told the inspectors he had witnessed several people try to commit suicide by tying their bed sheets to the vents. (immigrationimpact.com)

Click here to see the letter to Representative Bennie Thompson requesting his support for the release of ICE detainees, signed by Mississippi immigrant families and coordinated by the Immigrant Alliance for Justice and Equity along with Jackson-area organizations. (nowcrj.org)

In portions of the three responses, the government issued identical statements, arguing that detainees' being unable to social distance is not grounds for their release. (aijustice.org)

According to PBNDS [Performance-Based National Detention Standards] 2011 Standard 4.7, part V.A '… the hospital's internal rules and procedures concerning seriously ill, injured and dying patients shall apply to detainees. (theblaze.com)

the deputy director said in court papers that the office experienced "resource limitations" as the detainee population quadrupled in two years to an average of 10,409. (thedailybeast.com)
Indeed, an ICE policy instituted six years ago mandated the creation of these records so the agency could assess how its 200-plus detention centers use and misuse solitary, officially known as "segregation. (pogo.org)
According to the center's logs, no detainees received cleanings or fillings for four years. (immigrationimpact.com)
ICE has come under fire in recent years for issues related to medical care provided within its detention centers. (buzzfeednews.com)
In recent years, Australia has experienced a rise in the availability of ice. (aic.gov.au)
PASCH: There's going to be some percentage of the detained population that decides that they don't trust ICE, and that's from years of medical mistreatment that's rearing its head. (wrvo.org)

ICE said it will comply and has scheduled a contractor to conduct an inspection beginning next week. (immigrationimpact.com)

To everyone's surprise, several dozen detainees, who were in the exercise yard and saw demonstrators arrive with banners and signs, went to the fence with fists up. (workers.org)
It's the latest of at least a dozen recent incidents in which detainees have been pepper-sprayed. (motherjones.com)

A further 80 detainees are still awaiting their results and 22 employees have also tested positive. (feminist.org)
Of those new detainees, 51 tested positive for COVID-19, and one person required hospitalization. (feminist.org)
He says COVID-19 positive detainees were put together in one room. (nhpr.org)
All 65 people who tested positive have now recovered or been released, according to ICE. (motherjones.com)

Detainees are typically paid $1 per day when they work shifts in the Voluntary Work Program at the for-profit Northwest detention center in Tacoma. (americanjournalnews.com)

ICE contracts with medical services and hospitals to provide the care on taxpayer dime to the tune of $260 million per year. (theblaze.com)
Earlier this year, the Heartland Alliance's National Immigrant Justice Center filed 13 complaints with the Department of Homeland Security's Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties detailing serious civil and human rights violations committed against LGBT immigration detainees. (huffpost.com)
The report by the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Inspector General said that Mesa-based ICE Air "met its mission" by transporting 930,435 detainees over a 3.5-year period beginning in 2010, but that it could have done so more efficiently. (azpbs.org)
Last year, the Southern Poverty Law Center sued ICE and its parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, alleging the agency was deliberately detaining people in rural areas far from legal resources. (aijustice.org)
Yuba County pockets about $5 million a year for housing ICE detainees. (davisvanguard.org)

CHO: Depending on where people happen to be locked up in ICE detention will determine whether or not they have access to the vaccine. (wrvo.org)
But then I heard about 130 doses of the Moderna vaccine going to ICE detainees in north Houston. (wrvo.org)

ICE detainees can be removed from the facility's general population under certain circumstances, like if they commit a serious rule violation or need medical attention. (immigrationimpact.com)

He also said that there are leaks in the building's structure that let rainwater drip onto detainees' beds. (wrkf.org)
When criminal justice reforms were enacted, that left empty beds that were ripe for contracting with ICE," she says. (aijustice.org)

Both staff and detainees referred to these bed sheets specifically as "nooses. (immigrationimpact.com)

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