Legal challenges, including a separate federal lawsuit brought by nonprofits, could take months, at best. In the meantime, oversight advocates worry their absence could exacerbate conditions in detention.
A language barrier between a Spanish-speaking detainee and an English-speaking officer turned a request for the bathroom into a month of solitary confinement at the Baker County Detention Center.
A whistleblower at Baker County Detention Center, an ICE facility near Jacksonville, Florida, reported a trend of systemic human rights violations.
A migrant woman spent more than a month in solitary confinement due to a language barrier, after she asked for feminine hygiene products and couldn’t understand officers’ English commands, according to a complaint detailing “inhumane conditions” at a northern Florida detention facility.
A Florida congressman is calling for the closure of the Baker County Detention Center in Macclenny after a whistleblower report and a complaint alleging civil rights violations at the facility.
The United Nations explains that solitary confinement for over 15 days constitutes torture, and the lived experience of people who have experienced psychosis and PTSD due to “administrative and disciplinary segregation” validates this conclusion.
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 [...]
The Hill: It’s time to end the barbaric practice of solitary confinement in immigration detention This article features Government Accountability Project whistleblower client claims and was originally published here. Across the country, the Biden administration is holding hundreds of immigrants in solitary confinement. With the president’s calls for the “toughest” border crackdown in U.S. [...]
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.
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