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Rise in ICE Custody Population
Comparison of immigration detention population growth between 2025 and 2026.
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Cuban immigrant died in ICE custody in suspected suicide, agency ...
Item 1 of 2 The entrance to the Stewart Detention Center is pictured in Lumpkin, Georgia, U.S. February 21 , 2018. Picture taken February 21, 2018. REUTERS/Reade Levinson/File Photo[1/2]The entrance to the Stewart Detention Center is pictured in Lumpkin, Georgia, U.S. February 21 , 2018. Picture taken February 21, 2018. REUTERS/Reade Levinson/File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tabSummaryDenny Adan Gonzalez found unresponsive in Georgia detention centerDeaths in ICE custody on pace to surpass two-decade high last yearDetention operator CoreCivic says medical staff responded promptlyWASHINGTON, May 1 (Reuters) - A Cuban immigrant died in U.S. immigration custody in Georgia in what authorities suspect was a suicide, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said in a press release on Friday.Denny Adan Gonzalez, 33, was found unresponsive in his cell at the Stewart Detention Center on Tuesday and pronounced dead less than an hour later, ICE said. Sign up here.President Donald Trump, a Republican, has pushed to detain many more immigrants as part of his mass deportation effort. The number of people detained by ICE has grown from 40,000 when Trump took office in 2025 to 60,000, with detention poised to expand further this year.Deaths of immigrants in ICE custody reached a two-decade high last year and are on pace to climb higher this year, with 18 deaths through the first four months of the year.ICE said that Gonzalez entered the U.S. at a Texas port of entry in May 2019 but was deemed "inadmissible" and deported in January 2020. He crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally in 2022 and was released into the U.S. with an order of supervision, ICE said.Gonzalez was arrested by the Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office in Charlotte, North Carolina, for assault on a female and domestic violence, ICE said. He was taken into ICE custody and transferred to Stewart Detention Center in January 2026, ICE said.Stewart, located in the rural city of Lumpkin, is operated by the private prison company CoreCivic.Ryan Gustin, a spokesperson for CoreCivic, said medical staff arrived promptly and began lifesaving measures once Gonzalez was discovered unresponsive."We are deeply saddened by and take very seriously the passing of any individual in our care," Gustin said.Immigrant advocates have long criticized Stewart, which was opened in 2006, for its remote location, restrictive environment and alleged substandard medical care.ICE did not immediately respon...
Cuban man is 18th person to die in US ICE custody this year: Monitor
Rights group says believed suicide underscores need for more oversight amid Trump’s mass deportation drive.A 33-year-old Cuban man has died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody, believed to be by suicide, the agency has said.A monitoring group on Friday said Denny Adan Gonzalez was the 18th person to die in US immigration custody this year amid the administration of US President Donald Trump’s mass deportation drive. He is also the fifth death believed to be by suicide, according to Physicians for Human Rights, which warned of a pattern of “increasing suicides”.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Rights groups, Milwaukee leaders slam ICE’s arrest of Palestinian advocatelist 2 of 3Lula asks US to send ex-intelligence chief to Brazil after ICE arrestlist 3 of 3Scholar Rumeysa Ozturk returns to Turkiye following Trump deportation pushend of listIn its statement, ICE said Gonzalez had been arrested on December 12, 2025, in Charlotte, North Carolina for “assault on a female and domestic violence”.He was transferred to ICE custody at Stewart Detention Center in Georgia in January. It added that he had previously been expelled from the US but re-entered without documentation in 2022.On Tuesday, Gonzalez was found unresponsive in his cell and was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital, according to ICE. He was discovered by staff from CoreCivic, a private prison company that partners with ICE.Monitors have said 2026 is on track to have the highest death toll in ICE custody in the agency’s 22-year history. Last year already saw a record number of deaths in immigration custody, with 33 confirmed.The uptick comes amid a surge in immigration detentions under Trump, which reached a high of more than 70,000 people in detention in January of this year. That was up from just less than 40,000 people in immigration detention when Trump took office in January 2025, according to the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) tracker.Responding to Gonzalez’s death, Physicians for Human Rights said it “reflects a pattern of increasing suicides in a system where solitary confinement remains widespread, despite well-documented evidence of its severe psychological harms”.Andrew Free, a lawyer who tracks immigration detention, has said Gonzalez had been held in solitary confinement. ICE did not say in its statement whether Gonzalez was being held in isolation when he was found dead. Al Jazeera has reached out to the agency for comment.In a statement, ...
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