Immigration
The overlap of immigration and criminal law
- ICE detention costs much more than federal prison or jail, but it's still rife with abuse, inedible food, and medical neglect (Created: 2026)
- Federal plans would rapidly expand arrests and detention by 2027 (Created: 2026)
- Federal detention and incarceration trends (Created: 2026)
- Multiple agencies and thousands of local facilities confine people for the federal government (Created: 2026)
- Almost 88,000 people are confined for immigration reasons (Created: 2026)
- Local jails are essential to ICE arrest expansion (Created: 2025)
- Policies blocking ICE access to jails have kept immigration arrest rates lower in some states (Created: 2025)
- Where did federal agencies detain people when they ramped up immigration detention? Most often, in local jails (Created: 2025)
- Local jails enable federal agencies to detain people for immigration reasons (Created: 2025)
- U.S. Marshals are booking far more people into federal detention for immigration charges (Created: 2025)
- Policies blocking ICE arrests in jails have kept immigration arrest rates lower in some states (Created: 2025)
- Jails working with ICE led the early expansion of arrests (Created: 2025)
- ICE statistics understate the true reach of immigration detention (Created: 2025)
- Unless they stop renting space to federal agencies, local jails have the capacity to rapidly expand immigration detention (Created: 2025)
- The growth of electronic monitoring for ICE, 2015-2022 (Created: 2024)
- The growth of electronic monitoring for criminal legal systems, 2015-2021 (Created: 2024)
- How boarding ICE detainees and federal/state prisoners in local jails distorts the national picture of who is in jail (Created: 2015)
