National Immigrant Justice Center: Snapshot of ICE Detention: Inhumane Conditions and Alarming Expansion
The National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) has released Snapshot of ICE Detention: Inhumane Conditions and Alarming Expansion. The document highlights data that reveals the increasingly deadly conditions immigrants in civil detention face and the rapid expansion of the immigration detention system. NIJC joins several national organizations in calling for a halt to this expansion and action to address these developments:
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ICE currently detains on average over 37,000 people each day, an alarming 133 percent increase from the start of the Biden administration.
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22 people have died in ICE custody since the start of the Biden administration. Eleven of those deaths have occurred over the last year alone more than double the year before, according to ICE
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ICE has increased by 50 percent its use of solitary confinement for people considered members of a “vulnerable or special population” since March 2023.
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60 percent of people in ICE custody are subject to “mandatory detention” meaning they do not have the right to a bond hearing to make a case for release.
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Yearly funding for ICE detention has increased to five times higher than what it was two decades ago, providing a windfall for private prison companies.
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Alarmingly, the Biden administration is seeking to expand the detention system, issuing recent solicitations for contracts for new facilities across the country.
KJ
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