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- Title
On the Other Side of the Looking Glass: COVID-19 Care in Immigration Detention.
- Authors
Schriro, Dora
- Abstract
Immigration Detention is a patchwork of public and private correctional facilities overseen by ICE, a federal enforcement agency. In June 2021, ICE detained 16,460 adults in 121 facilities in 38 states, frequently alongside pretrial and sentenced inmates and U.S. Marshals Service prisoners, under varying conditions ICE established with five different sets of detention standards, all of them based on corrections case law and in effect today. Detainees have not fared well in ICE's custody, especially during the pandemic. In CY2020, ICE processed 137,749 detainees, tested only 80,200 for COVID-19 (58%), and recorded 8622 positive cases (11%) at over 100 facilities. Most testing positive for COVID-19—7687 (89%)—contracted the virus in ICE custody, including eight detainees who died. An additional 14,728 detainees (18%) had one or more conditions placing them at high risk for severe illness due to COVID-19 of which ICE only released 5801 (39%). This paper utilizes ICE data and documents on government websites to evaluate ICE's approach to detention management and explore its impact on conditions of detention and how it impeded its readiness and response to the pandemic. It concludes with recommendations that ICE decrease reliance on detention and decriminalize its policies and practices.
- Subjects
COVID-19 pandemic; GOVERNMENT agencies; UNITED States. Marshals Service; CORRECTIONAL facility operation services; PRETRIAL detainees; GOVERNMENT websites
- Publication
Social Sciences (2076-0760), 2021, Vol 10, Issue 10, p353
- ISSN
2076-0760
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/socsci10100353