ICE furloughed its entire Office of Detention Oversight despite detention capacity surpassing 100,000 beds, eliminating monitoring of facility conditions while detainee numbers reach historic highs. The shutdown of oversight occurred simultaneously with the largest expansion of immigration detention …
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Senator Jon Ossoff’s investigation identified 510 credible reports of human rights abuse in ICE detention, including 41 cases of physical or sexual abuse, 18 reports of child mistreatment, and 14 reports of pregnant women abuse. At Krome detention center, the facility held 1,200 more people …
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Fourteen people died in ICE custody by August 2025, with 11 deaths occurring since the start of the Trump administration. Nearly 90% of ICE detainees are held in facilities run by private companies GEO Group and CoreCivic. Reports documented widespread medical neglect, overcrowding, lack of food, …
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Florida opened a 3,000-5,000 person tent detention facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” in the Everglades wetlands, costing $450 million annually—three times the cost of existing facilities. Attorney General James Uthmeier boasted detainees who escape would face “alligators and …
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Private security contractor MVM Inc. detained migrant children in Hampton Inn hotels across Arizona and Texas border cities before expelling them under Title 42. The company held at least 29 children in hotels in April 2020, increasing to 80 by May, with children as young as 1 year old detained …
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Frontier Services Group announced plans to build a training facility in Xinjiang province, the western Chinese region where as many as 1 million Uyghur Muslims had been placed in extrajudicial detention camps under comprehensive surveillance. FSG’s Chinese website posted a statement saying the …
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On August 10-11, 2016, Ahmed Mansoor, an internationally recognized UAE-based human rights defender and recipient of the Martin Ennals Award, receives suspicious SMS messages on his iPhone promising “new secrets” about detainees tortured in UAE jails. Instead of clicking the malicious …
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