POGO - An Illinois judge issued a temporary restraining order to an ICE holding facility, expressing concerns about the “unnecessarily cruel” conditions and ordering them to immediately improve safety and sanitation. The holding cells at the facility were originally designed for stays no longer than 12 hours, but because of a reversal in ICE’s internal policy, people are now being held there, and at holding facilities nationwide, for days on end, and often without beds, access to showers and private toilets, or even adequate food, water, and medical care. The administration’s mandatory detention policy — which more than 100 federal judges across the country have independently rebuked — has placed more people in the detention system and for longer periods than the system was ever outfitted to handle.
POGO has investigated and long raised alarm about the conditions in ICE detention. The administration’s aggressive mass deportation agenda only had the potential to make these widespread problems much worse. At least 20 people have died in ICE custody this year. That is almost twice the fatalities of 2024. Shutdown consequences: The furloughing of staff at the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Detention Oversight means that ICE facilities are going without oversight at a time they need it most.
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