The human toll, in findings.
Deaths in custody, and the conditions documented by courts, state inspectors, Congress, and ICE's own oversight office. Findings, not adjectives. Names with dignity; family consent before stories or photos.
Deaths ledger, by facility
| Facility (operator) | Deaths reported | Documented finding |
|---|---|---|
| Camp East Montana, Fort Bliss, TXAcquisition Logistics | 3 by Apr 2026 | One death ruled a homicide by the El Paso medical examiner (Jan 2026). |
| Delaney Hall, Newark, NJGEO Group | 3 medical-emergency deaths | Brutus (Dec 2025): ambulance held at the gate per witnesses. Lopez-Cornejo (Aug 2026): family reports medication denied; state civil rights investigation opened. |
| Adelanto, CAGEO Group | 4 (Sept 2025 to Mar 2026) | Ayala-Uribe: staff knew of a life-threatening emergency three days before his death, per court filings. Federal injunction July 16, 2026. |
| Stewart, Lumpkin, GACoreCivic | 2, plus one in transit | Gonzalez (Apr 2026): death by suicide in segregation, less than three months after ICE's oversight office cited suicide-prevention violations. |
| Winn, Winnfield, LALaSalle | 2 (Apr and Jun 2026) | Cabrera Clemente; Artmeladze. |
| North Lake, Baldwin, MIGEO Group | 1 (Dec 2025) | Gantchev; no answers to the congressional inquiry. |
| Montgomery and Joe Corley, Conroe, TXGEO Group | 2 (Dec 2025, Jan 2026) | Detention Kills counts at least 45 deaths at GEO facilities over the company's ICE history. |
Source: Austin Kocher, Detention Reports (May 1, 2026); NPR (Apr 17, 2026); U.S. News (Aug 13, 2026); AILA death tracker; CalMatters (Jul 2026); Detention Kills; HRW and PHR, Dying in Detention (Jun 25, 2026). Florida, Texas, and Georgia account for 22 of 48 deaths through Apr 28, 2026.
Open Exhibits 3 and 4: the death counts and where they occurWhat courts and inspectors have already found.
45 of 181 facilities held more people than their contractual capacity on April 13, 2025. Stewart and Adams County (both CoreCivic) averaged more than 2,000 a day in March 2026; Stewart's official capacity is 1,752. Open
Medication denied and emergency response delayed before deaths at Delaney Hall and Adelanto; a ten-month record of care denials at North Lake ending in a 300-man hunger strike; a two-month refusal to share tuberculosis information at Aurora. Open
Suicide-prevention failures cited at Stewart before a death; a federal spoliation sanction against CoreCivic for destroying cell video after a death at Torrance County; solitary confinement used to compel unpaid labor at Aurora. Open
363 pregnant, postpartum, or nursing immigrants deported; 16 miscarriages recorded in detention in nine months; a woman at Eloy told repeatedly she was not pregnant, who then miscarried. Open
229 sexual abuse reports at Tacoma over ten years, most with no incident review; a 2020 memo at Otay Mesa that lets the warden decide whether rape allegations are investigated; a GEO officer's guilty plea at Basile. Open
More than 170 U.S. citizens detained since January 2025 by ProPublica's count, a floor, not a ceiling, because the government keeps no count. Open
More than 6,200 children detained since January 2025; 911 held past the 20-day Flores limit; a court-appointed monitor installed August 18, 2026. Open
Source: each exhibit carries its own citations. Oversight gap: with CRCL reduced to a handful of staff and ICE reporting only about half the facilities it uses, the operative oversight is litigation, state inspection law, and local land-use authority.
The record is public. The decisions are dated.
Aurora's contract expires October 15. Tacoma's bridge ends October 27. Three California operations come up for refunding on December 19. Tell the officials who fund them, and the shareholders who finance them, that you are watching.