Hiding in Plain Sight: How local jails obscure and facilitate mass deportation under Trump
by Jacob Kang-Brown
July 2025
Appendix Table 1: Average daily population for federal detention by month (October 2024 – May 2025)
The following table shows the average daily number of people in the federal pretrial detention has been rising since January 2025. These individuals are held on behalf of the U.S. Marshals in local, private, and federal facilities.
| Average Daily Population | |
|---|---|
| Oct. 2024 | 55,455 |
| Nov. 2024 | 55,086 |
| Dec. 2024 | 54,421 |
| Jan. 2025 | 54,035 |
| Feb. 2025 | 54,966 |
| Mar. 2025 | 55,792 |
| Apr. 2025 | 56,063 |
| May 2025 | 56,805 |
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