Research and analysis exposing the inhumane immigration detention system.

Anthology of Abuse: A Legacy of Failed Oversight and Death at the Eloy Detention Center

Anthology of Abuse: A Legacy of Failed Oversight and Death at the Eloy Detention Center
Co-Authors
Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project
This new report details the failed oversight, medical neglect and deaths in the Eloy Detention Center. Eloy has gained notoriety as the "deadliest immigration detention center in the U.S.," with at least 16 reported deaths, including five suicides. The report calls for the release of people detained and the permanent closure of the facility immediately.

Anthology of Abuse: The Case for Permanent Closure of the Torrance County Detention Facility

Anthology of Abuse: The Case for Permanent Closure of the Torrance County Detention Facility
Co-Authors
New Mexico Immigrant Law Center, New Mexico Dream Team, Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center & Innovation Law Lab
This new report details the longstanding and systemic abuse issues at the Torrance County Detention Facility (TCDF) in New Mexico. Since 1990, TCDF has been plagued by inhumane living conditions, inadequate healthcare, restricted legal access, and numerous deaths. The report highlights the facility's failure to protect people detained.

Anthology of Abuse: Violence and Neglect at the Winn Correctional Center

Anthology of Abuse: Violence and Neglect at the Winn Correctional Center
Co-Authors
Detention Watch Network, Freedom for Immigrants, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights, & Southern Poverty Law Center
This new report spotlights the notorious record of abuse at the Winn Correctional Center in Winnfield, Louisiana. This facility is—and has long been—a place of violence and neglect that has proven to be immune to oversight and reform. Nearly 40 immigrant justice groups joined the urgent call for the Biden administration to not renew the contract at Winn, release the people inside, shut the facility down, and stop using it to jail any population of people again.

Anthology of Abuse: 13 Years at Farmville Detention Center

Anthology of Abuse: 13 Years at Farmville Detention Center
Co-Authors
The National Immigration Project, LaColectiVa, Free Them All VA
This report outlines extensive documentation of abuses that have occurred at ICA-Farmville Detention Center in its 13 year history. We ask that ICE allow this contract to expire and shut down operations at ICE-Farmville for good.

Anthology of Abuse: End Three Decades of Abuse at the Elizabeth Detention Center

Anthology of Abuse: End Three Decades of Abuse at the Elizabeth Detention Center
Co-Authors
AFSC Immigrant Rights Program Newark, First Friends of NY & NJ, Pax Christi New Jersey, and New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice,
This ‘Anthology of Abuse’ compiles decades' worth of inhumane treatment at the Elizabeth Detention Center (EDC). The joint contract to operate the EDC between private prison company CoreCivic and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) expires on August 31.

If You Build It, ICE Will Fill It: The Link Between Detention Capacity and ICE Arrests

If You Build It, ICE Will Fill It: The Link Between Detention Capacity and ICE Arrests
Co-Authors
The Immigration Legal Resource Center, Ceres Research

ICE arrests have a direct relationship to the availability and capacity of immigration detention centers. As detention capacity increases, so do ICE apprehensions. The report, If You Build It, ICE Will Fill It, from Detention Watch Network, the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, and Ceres Policy Research outlines the direct link between Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arrests and the availability and capacity of immigration detention centers. The report demonstrates that immigrants in counties with more detention space and counties with an overall higher carceral capacity are significantly more likely to be arrested and detained by ICE.

ICE Lies: Public Deception, Private Profit

ICE Lies: Public Deception, Private Profit
Co-Authors
National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC)

ICE Lies: Public Deception, Private Profit, exposes Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) egregious patterns of fiscal irresponsibility, opacity in management, and disregard for congressional oversight in its detention system. Such irresponsible governance results in system-wide abuses and even deaths.

Lives in Peril: How Ineffective Inspections Make ICE Complicit in Detention Center Abuse

Lives in Peril: How Ineffective Inspections Make ICE Complicit in Immigration Detention Abuse
Co-Authors
National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC)

This report exposes how Immigration Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) inspections process for immigration detention obscures and perpetuates widespread abuses of detained immigrants. The lack of accountability for the operators and service-providers of immigration detention facilities has led to egregious conditions, medically negligent deaths, and abuses that violate the most basic of human and constitutional rights. The report draws on information obtained from contracts and audits of the most populated immigration detention facilities through a Freedom of Information Act request filed by NIJC in 2011.