April 23, 2024 Public Statement Submitted Urging Congress to End the Abusive Use of Solitary Confinement in ICE Detention After 10 Years of Torture WASHINGTON– Yesterday, Government Accountability Project submitted a statement to Congress in support of the recent April 16, 2024 Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, “Legacy of Harm: Eliminating the Abuse of [...]
February 6, 2024 Report Echoes Whistleblower’s Alarms on Solitary Confinement in ICE Detention WASHINGTON – “Endless Nightmare: Torture and Inhuman Treatment in Solitary Confinement in U.S. Immigration Detention,” a report released today by the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program, Harvard Medical School’s Peeler Immigration Lab, and Physicians for Human Rights, shines a light [...]
U.S. IMMIGRATION AUTHORITIES locked thousands of people in solitary confinement in 2023 as the United States continues to flout international human rights standards in its sprawling network of immigration detention facilities.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 26, 2022 Government Accountability Project Client, Ellen Gallagher, Participates in Congressional Briefing on Inadequate Mental Health Care and Improper Use of Solitary Confinement in ICE Detention On September 22, 2022, the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) held a briefing, sponsored by Congressman Joaquin Castro, for congressional staff, advocates, and press [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: August 11, 2022 Government Accountability Project Applauds Senate Judiciary Committee Members’ Letter to ICE Regarding Overuse of Solitary Confinement On August 1, 2022, Senator Dick Durbin, along with several members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent a second letter to Acting Director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Tae D. Johnson, [...]
Three years after ICIJ’s ‘Solitary Voices,’ isolation still commonplace in US prisons and detention centers This article features Government Accountability Project’s whistleblower client, Ellen Gallagher, and was originally published here. During the heated 2020 presidential race, Joe Biden vowed to end solitary confinement in the United States. “No act can justify the inhumane treatment [...]
Harvard immigration clinic sues ICE after request for records goes ignored for more than four years This article features Government Accountability Project and was originally published here. The Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program said it submitted a number of requests to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) through the Freedom [...]
'Torture': Whistleblower group urges Biden admin to put a stop to ICE's use of solitary confinement This article features Government Accountability Project’s whistleblower client, Ellen Gallagher, and was originally published here. A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) watchdog report last month said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was abusing detained immigrants through the use of solitary [...]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 15, 2021 Government Accountability Project Urges Congress, DHS Secretary Mayorkas to End ICE’s Use of Solitary Confinement in Immigration Detention OIG Audit Validates Whistleblower’s Seven Year Battle to End Torture of Medically Vulnerable and Mentally Ill Immigrant Detainees WASHINGTON— Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has long subjected countless immigrants detained in ICE detention facilities to solitary confinement, a practice that is largely invisible to the [...]
ICE doesn't adequately track solitary confinement in detention facilities, watchdog finds This article features information from Government Accountability Project’s whistleblower client, Ellen Gallagher, and was originally published here. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement does not adequately monitor and track its use of solitary confinement inside immigration detention facilities across the country, according to a watchdog review of the [...]