“Detention by the numbers” by Freedom for Immigrants, 2018-2019. Dive into the numbers of just how many people are being held in immigration detention, the cost, and length of stay to learn more about the U.S. immigration system.
“The Capricious Use of Solitary Confinement Against Detained Immigrants” by Ian Urbina, The Atlantic, September 2019. FOIA documents and a whistle-blower uncover how the Obama and Trump administrations used solitary in ways that critics say are arbitrary, cruel, and in violation of federal rules.
“DHS Is Locking Immigrants in Solitary Confinement” by Naureen Shah, ACLU, May 2019. A Senior Policy and Policy Counsel details the horrors immigrants are enduring while in ICE custody locked up in solitary confinement.
“The other problem with ICE detention: Solitary confinement” by Ellen Gallagher, The Washington Post, August 2019. A perspective piece on the conditions of ICE detention centers use of solitary confinement for immigrants.
Letter to Mark Morgan, Acting Director U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Department of Homeland Security. ICE Facilities Reportedly Rely on Solitary Confinement as "Go-To Tool" for Vulnerable Detainees; read to find out more about conditions in this letter written by Senator Elizabeth Warren.
"'These Folks Are Suffering Needlessly': A Damming New Report on Deaths in ICE Detention" by Madison Pauly, Mother Jones, June 2018. A report from Human Rights Watch, the ACLU, the National Immigrant Justice Center, and the Detention Watch Network criticizes ICE placing immigrant detainees with mental health conditions in solitary confinement.
"Undocumented Immigrants Decry Solitary Confinement At Georgia Detention Center" by Roque Planas, the Huffington Post, october 2015. Condition reports from detainees at a detention center in Georgia are presented. The reports include detainees spending up to 23 hours a day locked up, surviving on a diet consisting mainly of potatoes, and being subjected to solitary confinement as a punishment.
"NRCAT Affirms ICE Mandate Limiting Solitary Confinement for Immigration Deatainees as Valuable Step" press release on September 6, 2013. The U.S. ICE issued new directives that will update current policies and procedures regarding solitary confinement.
"Limits on ICE solitary confinement advance" by Jeremy Redmon, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, May 20, 2013. New limits on how federal immigration authorities can use solitary confinement were adopted by the Senate Judiciary Committee. The adopted amendment was offered by Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Connecticut.
"Some immigrants spend weeks in solitary confinement" by Jeremy Redmon, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, April 22, 2013. Redmon investigates how hundreds of immigrants in detention centers are placed in solitary confinement each week.
"Schumer to ICE: Limit Solitary Confinement or Congress Will" by Joseph Straw, New York Daily News, March 26, 2013. U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer, Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security, sent a letter to federal immigration officials, urging them to limit the use of solitary confinement at immigration detention facilities. Schumer wrote that he will seek to address the use of solitary confinement in ICE at the forthcoming legislation.
