Duration in Immigration Detention and Health Harms.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Length of custody is a mechanism by which carceral systems can worsen health. However, there are fewer studies examining US immigration detention, in large part because US immigration detention is largely privately operated and opaque by design.

Objectives

To examine the association between duration spent in US immigration detention with subsequent health outcomes.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study used a referral sample of recently detained immigrants who were released from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under a series of court orders in 2020 and 2021. Data were analyzed from June 2023 to October 2024.

Exposure

Detention duration less than 6 months vs 6 months or longer.

Main outcomes and measures

We use

SUBMITTER: Saadi A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11762235 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature