Characteristics of Deaths Among Individuals in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detention Facilities, 2011-2018.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Concerns have been raised that substandard medical care has contributed to deaths in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities. After each in-custody death, ICE produces detainee death reviews, which describe the circumstances of the death and determine whether ICE Performance-Based National Detention Standards (PBNDS) were violated.

Objective

To describe factors associated with deaths in ICE detention facilities.

Design, setting, and participants

This case series used data extracted from detainee death reviews of deaths among individuals detained in ICE facilities for whom these reviews were available from January 2011 to December 2018.

Exposures

All individuals were in the custody of ICE at the time of death.

Main outcome

SUBMITTER: Grassini M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8264644 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature