ICE detention centres show widespread use of force in internal records
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Updated · The Washington Post · May 4
ICE detention centres show widespread use of force in internal records
11 articles · Updated · The Washington Post · May 4
The records include accounts from facilities such as an Alaska jail, where detainee Pedro Cantú Ríos said chemicals were used during unrest last summer.
The report describes frustrated immigrant men held in cramped, windowless cells without access to personal belongings, conditions that detainees said heightened tensions inside the centres.
The findings add to scrutiny of US immigration detention practices, focusing attention on how force is used against detainees and on conditions in facilities holding migrants.
With in-custody deaths at a 22-year high, is systemic medical neglect now standard practice in immigration detention?
ICE is secretly converting warehouses to detain 100,000 people. What will life be like inside these new facilities?
As ICE dismantles its own oversight, who now polices the dramatic rise in force and detainee deaths?