Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Archives

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

New this week from Solitary Watch: Cinquan Umar Muhammad and Wallace “Shubaka” Kirby won second and third place, respectively, in the inaugural Voices Beyond the Walls writing contest presented by the National Religious Campaign Against Torture’s National Network of Solitary Survivors in collaboration with Solitary Watch. Muhammad, a justice-impacted writer and advocate from Washington D.C., […]

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Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

New ICE Numbers Show Widespread Abuse of Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

120 ICE Detainees Describe Abuse at Arizona Detention Center…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Illinois Prison Accused of Holding People in “Dungeon-like” Cells Without Exercise…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Isolation and Neglect Fuel Suicides in ICE Detention…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Man Who Tore Out His Eyes in an Isolation Cell Seeks Justice from Federal Appeals Court…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Life After Death Row—and Decades of Solitary—in California…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Class-Action Lawsuit Challenges Oregon’s Use of Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

47 Suicides in Solitary Uncovered in Mississippi Investigation…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

ICE Sued Over “Lethal” Conditions at Nation’s Largest Detention Camp…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

ICE Uses Solitary to Coerce People Into Self-Deporting…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Solitary and Suicides Prevalent in ICE Detention…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Trapped in “El Pozo”: As Overcrowding and Abuse in ICE Detention Increases Under Trump, So Does Solitary Confinement

Judge Condemns “Unprompted” Solitary for Suspect in Correspondents’ Dinner Shooting…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

ICE Detainees Put in Solitary After Going on Hunger Strike…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Black Transgender Women Face Isolation and Abuse in North Carolina Prisons…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Five-Year-Old with Autism Placed in “Cruel” School Isolation Room…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Detainees Reportedly Held in Conditions of Torture at “Alligator Alcatraz”…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Half of Massachusetts Prison Suicides Were in Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Growing Body of Evidence Shows Solitary Does Not Make Prisons Safer…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Punished for Disabilities: Minnesota Schoolchildren Held in Isolation…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Colorado Judge: Forced Prison Labor is “Involuntary Servitude”…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Pregnant Women in ICE Custody Being Shackled, Put in Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Exposing the “Real Scandal” Behind the Solitary Cell Where Epstein Died…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

After Decades in Solitary, Pelican Bay Hunger Strikers Navigate the Free World…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Death of ICE Detainee Restrained by Guards Is Ruled a Homicide…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

ICE Using Outdoor Solitary in Tiny Cages at Alligator Alcatraz…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Youth Face Prolonged Isolation in Connecticut’s Adult Prisons…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Report Exposes Torture at Florida Immigration Detention Facilities…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week

Prison Overcrowding and “Understaffing” Spur Rise in Use of Solitary…and Other News on Solitary Confinement This Week