A bar chart with arrows pointing up illustrating the increase in immigrant detention between January and April 2025 by facility type. It shows that local jails had the largest growth followed by private prisons and, to a much smaller extent, federal facilities.

Data Source: U.S. Marshals Service Prisoner Operations and ICE Detention Management reports for January and April 2025. (Graph: Wendy Sawyer, 2025)

This graph originally appeared in Hiding in Plain Sight: How local jails obscure and facilitate mass deportation under Trump.



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