Detention Conditions

1,038 documented incidents tagged “Detention Conditions” in the Human Impact Project database — showing the 100 most recent. View all on the interactive map.

• Detained woman describes medical neglect, freezing punishment room in ICE custody

  Aug 24, 2026

• Colombian woman detained nine months by ICE, family cites health concerns

  Aug 21, 2026 · Basile, LA

• Cuban deported by ICE to Liberia ends up stranded in Equatorial Guinea

  Aug 20, 2026 · LA

• Five migrants resist Liberia deportation, forced off plane in Equatorial Guinea

  Aug 20, 2026

• 5-year-old boy detained with father en route to soccer game, held at Dilley facility

  Aug 20, 2026 · Austin, TX

• Grievance system meant to protect ICE detainees has collapsed, NPR review finds

  Aug 20, 2026

• Bangladeshi woman denied medication in ICE custody, now pushes for reform bill

  Aug 20, 2026 · California City, CA

• Delaney Hall detainees seek crime-victim visas after alleged abuse during protests

  Aug 20, 2026 · Newark, NJ

• Judge appoints monitors after migrant children held far past legal detention limit

  Aug 20, 2026 · Los Angeles, CA

• Iraqi man with dementia arrested by ICE despite court ruling barring deportation to Iraq

  Aug 20, 2026

• Colombian mother separated from children at ICE check-in despite torture protection ruling

  Aug 20, 2026 · Baltimore, MD

• Transgender asylum seeker sexually assaulted in Michigan detention, later deported

  Aug 20, 2026 · MI

• Transgender asylum seeker held in men's facility, denied hormone treatment

  Aug 20, 2026 · New York, NY

• Mexico pursues legal action over 17 deaths of its nationals in ICE custody

  Aug 19, 2026

• Woman held six weeks after ICE arrest at Denver airport over unclear deportation order

  August 18, 2026 · Denver, CO

• Detained women describe vaginal infections in leaked ICE facility video

  Aug 19, 2026

• Mother and two children ordered deported after months in Texas detention camp

  Aug 18, 2026 · Dilley, TX

• Man detained over a year in Arizona ICE facility says he can no longer walk

  Aug 18, 2026 · Florence, AZ

• Mexican migrant alleges ICE beating in Texas, denied medical care

  Aug 18, 2026 · Arlington, TX

• DOJ moves to revive smuggling charges against wrongly deported Salvadoran man

  Aug 18, 2026 · Sacramento, CA

• DHS responds to county report on immigration detention surge

  Aug 18, 2026 · San Diego, CA

• Guatemalan man held over a week at 72-hour ICE facility despite signing voluntary departure

  Aug 17, 2026 · Miramar, FL

• Detained Arizona father says he can't walk, fears he won't survive ICE custody

  Aug 16, 2026 · Gilbert, AZ

• Man deported to El Salvador after months in Virginia jail; data shows hundreds more

  Aug 16, 2026 · Stafford, VA

• Maine contractor detained seven months after traffic stop returns home with green card

  Aug 16, 2026 · Portland, ME

• Detainees sickened by gas leak, extreme heat; denied care at Mississippi ICE facility

  Aug 14, 2026 · Natchez, MS

• Army staff sergeant's wife removed from deportation flight mid-journey, returned to Louisiana

  Aug 14, 2026 · Louisiana

• Venezuelan rapper with legal status alleges tuberculosis outbreak, overcrowding at Louisiana ICE facility

  Aug 13, 2026 · LA

• Over 140 detainees on hunger strike at Tacoma ICE detention center over food and medical care

  Aug 12, 2026 · Tacoma, WA

• Detained woman denied diabetes medication at New Jersey detention center, Rep. Mejia calls it a 'slow death sentence'

  Aug 12, 2026 · Elizabeth, NJ

• Dilley family detention center holding 60+ children beyond federal 20-day limit

  Aug 12, 2026 · Dilley, TX

• 9-year-old with special medical needs held at Montana Border Patrol station, lawyers say

  Aug 11, 2026 · Billings, MT

• Man hospitalized with brain bleed after ICE agents tase him near Arlington bus stop

  Aug 11, 2026 · Arlington, VA

• Indian national detained at Adelanto ICE facility seeks second emergency release order after dismissing prior case

  Aug 11, 2026 · Adelanto, CA

• Grandmother, special-needs teacher detained by ICE despite dismissed deportation case

  Aug 11, 2026 · Charlotte, NC

• Argentine nanny arrested at Philadelphia airport, detained month in ICE custody, released on bond

  Aug 10, 2026 · Philadelphia, PA

• NYC Mayor appeals to Trump to restore Haitian TPS as city forced to dismiss workers

  Aug 10, 2026 · New York, NY

• Car wash worker Mario detained two months in ICE facility, fights deportation after release

  Aug 9, 2026 · Santa Ana, CA

• Detainees report TB outbreak, overcrowding at Louisiana ICE facility

  Aug 8, 2026 · Louisiana

• New Jersey launches civil rights investigation into Delaney Hall ICE detention center

  Aug 8, 2026 · Newark, NJ

• Asylum seeker detained in inhumane border conditions at 11, now thriving in Southold community

  Aug 8, 2026 · El Paso, TX

• Detainee documents cockroach in Adelanto ICE cell, reports inhumane conditions

  Aug 8, 2026 · Adelanto, CA

• Pastor Gabriel Johnson suffers stroke in ICE custody, family denied contact and updates

  Aug 8, 2026 · TX

• Democrats describe grim conditions at ICE detention centers in Texas

  Aug 7, 2026 · Dilley, TX

• Pregnant 21-year-old detained 40+ days without prenatal care for high-risk pregnancy

  Aug 6, 2026 · Dilley, TX

• Afghan, Ukrainian, and Saudi detainees force-fed in ICE custody; torture allegations emerge

  Aug 5, 2026 · Texas

• Filipino father held over 400 days in ICE detention in Tacoma, WA

  Aug 4, 2026 · CA

• Grandfather detained seven months by ICE, missed daughter's birth and granddaughter's arrival

  Aug 4, 2026 · Los Lunas, NM

• Children exposed to arsenic, lead at now-closed Miami detention center

  Aug 4, 2026 · Homestead, FL

• Pastor paralyzed after ICE denies food, water, medication in North Carolina detention

  Aug 4, 2026 · Cary, NC

• Man who entered legally and married U.S. citizen detained by ICE, denied medical care

  Aug 4, 2026 · Louisiana

• Salvadoran father dies in ICE custody at Delaney Hall after alleged medical neglect

  Aug 4, 2026 · Newark, NJ

• Kosovo man with CAT protection detained by ICE challenges detention in federal habeas petition

  Aug 3, 2026 · Newark, NJ

• Venezuelan woman with master's degree detained by ICE, released after congresswoman's intervention

  Aug 3, 2026 · Pompano Beach, FL

• Hunger strikers subjected to force-feeding in ICE detention centers

  Aug 3, 2026 · Los Fresnos, TX; Miami, FL; Washington State; Houston, TX

• ICE detainee shows video of contaminated water with worms at California facility

  Aug 3, 2026 · Adelanto, CA

• Ana Granados Sanchez deported with medical tube attached, against hospital orders

  Aug 3, 2026 · Florence, AZ

• Court Orders Release of SIJS Petitioner from Immigration Detention

  Aug 2, 2026 · Denver, CO

• Country singer speaks out after family member arrested by ICE

  Aug 2, 2026 · Nashville, TN

• Syrian restaurant owner and caregiver detained at ICE check-in, later released on bond

  Jul 31, 2026 · New Jersey

• Permanent resident denied insulin, malaria treatment during seven-month ICE detention

  Jul 31, 2026 · Boston, MA

• Venezuelan soccer player detained by ICE despite pending asylum case, family calls for release

  Jul 31, 2026 · Pompano Beach, FL

• Guatemalan man hospitalized after violent ICE arrest in Georgia, denied medical care

  July 30, 2026 · Doraville, GA

• Hastily opened detention center faces lawsuits over conditions, medical neglect, solitary confinement

  Jul 30, 2026 · California City, CA

• ICE detention center implements controversial strip-search policy after physical visits

  Jul 30, 2026 · San Diego, CA

• Mexican woman arrested at immigration office, detained in freezing California facility

  Jul 30, 2026 · Fresno, CA

• Asylum seeker married to Trump voter detained at Burbank airport, held 16 days

  Jul 29, 2026 · Burbank, CA

• Woman shackled to hospital bed after miscarriage in ICE detention

  July 29, 2026

• 20-year-old with autism detained by ICE, denied medicine and blankets in Texas

  July 29, 2026 · TX

• Colombian woman detained at airport without hearing challenges ICE detention

  Jul 28, 2026 · Ontario, California

• Southern California DJ detained at Otay Mesa for nearly four months, alleges forced pregnancy tests and abuse

  Jul 28, 2026 · San Diego, CA

• Adelanto detainees zip-tied, threatened with teargas after staging hunger strike

  Jul 28, 2026 · Adelanto, CA

• Detained immigrant force-fed during hunger strike in ICE custody

  Jul 28, 2026

• California's largest ICE detention center fails to provide adequate medical care

  Jul 28, 2026 · California City, CA

• Venezuelan asylum seeker denied medication for ovarian condition in ICE custody

  Jul 27, 2026 · Atlanta, GA

• Man from Burkina Faso confined a year at Newark detention center seeking asylum

  Jul 27, 2026 · Newark, NJ

• Ecuadorian asylum seeker held without bond wins habeas release after mandatory detention challenge

  Jul 25, 2026 · Clinton County, PA

• Nigerian man restrained in WRAP device during ICE deportation to Ghana

  Jul 25, 2026

• Man with leukemia dies after denied medical care in ICE custody

  Jul 24, 2026 · Lumpkin, GA

• Durham man dies from leukemia in ICE custody after being denied medical care

  Jul 24, 2026 · Durham, NC

• Georgetown scholar detained for pro-Palestinian speech wins appeal, ICE re-detention rejected

  Jul 24, 2026 · Richmond, VA

• Guatemalan man dies after medical emergency at Delaney Hall detention center

  Jul 22, 2026 · Newark, NJ

• Louisville woman with sickle cell anemia detained by ICE, advocates say medication withheld

  Jul 22, 2026 · Leitchfield, KY

• Ugandan sickle cell patient detained by ICE denied medication, hospitalized at Kentucky jail

  Jul 22, 2026 · Louisville, KY

• Noncitizen challenges mandatory detention by ICE at Clay County facility

  Jul 22, 2026 · Clay County, IN

• U.S. Army veteran released from ICE detention after 9 months, alleges sexual assault by guard

  Jul 21, 2026 · Tacoma, WA

• Record 43,138 immigrants arrested by ICE in June under Trump administration

  Jul 21, 2026

• Ecuadorian au pair detained by plainclothes ICE agents at Denver airport jet bridge

  Jul 21, 2026 · Denver, CO

• Canadian citizen detained, released, then re-detained after missing appeal deadline

  Jul 21, 2026 · California, CA

• Sierra Leone native faces removal to Ghana despite threat to life, court halts deportation

  Jul 20, 2026

• Russian asylum seeker shackled, detained nearly a month after Niagara Falls trip

  Jul 20, 2026 · Buffalo, NY

• Russian asylum seeker Vlad deported to Moscow after missing hearing, feared conscription

  Jul 20, 2026 · Tucson, AZ

• Immigration courts deny bond to detained immigrants at accelerating rate

  Jul 20, 2026 · Elizabeth, NJ

• Michigan immigrant held in freezing isolation cell for three weeks, ICE increasingly uses solitary confinement

  Jul 19, 2026 · Baldwin, MI

• Venezuelan man detained 5 months, released with urgent deadline to return to Utah

  Jul 19, 2026 · Utah

• High school soccer captain detained by ICE after traffic stop, misses graduation

  Jul 19, 2026 · Walker County, GA

• ICE detainees in Miami endure extreme heat, cockroaches, broken toilets, medical neglect

  Jul 18, 2026 · Miami, FL

• Detained man returned from hospital early despite internal bleeding, advocacy group demands medical care

  Jul 18, 2026 · Adelanto, CA

• Gay Burkina Faso asylum seeker redetained by ICE weeks after court ordered release

  Jul 17, 2026 · New York, NY

• Venezuelan woman detained at airport after clearing security, held 17 days before bond granted

  Jul 17, 2026 · Fort Lauderdale, FL