Deaths in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention: FY2018-2020.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Many civil liberties organizations have raised concerns that substandard medical care in United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities have led to preventable deaths. The 2018 Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Bill required ICE to make public all reports regarding in-custody deaths within 90 days beginning in Fiscal Year (FY) 2018. Accordingly, ICE has released death reports following each in-custody death since April of 2018. This study describes characteristics of deaths among individuals in ICE detention following the FY2018 mandate.

Methods

Data was extracted from death reports published by ICE following the FY2018 mandate. Causes of death were categorized as suicide or medical, and medical deaths as COVID-19-related

SUBMITTER: Terp S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7870381 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature