Immigration Detention Conditions

Medical Care, Mental Health, and Death Prevention

Health screenings, emergency medical care, medication access, mental health support, trauma-informed care, health records, complaints, retaliation protections, audits, and death-in-custody review.

Immigration Enforcement Accountability in Custody Operations

Body cameras, dashboard cameras, video retention and disclosure, officer identification, limits on force or tactical tools, complaints when footage is withheld, and accountability for ICE or CBP misconduct affecting people in custody.

Mandatory Detention, Custody Hearings, and Release Rules

Rules requiring detention for specified crimes or gang allegations, custody transfer after arrests, limits on parole or release, probable-cause review, bond affordability, custody hearings, and judicial review.

Appropriations and Spending Conditions for Detention

Annual DHS funding, ICE and CBP operations funding, detention standards riders, oversight-based limits on contracts, detention capacity, body cameras, pregnancy protections, and reporting requirements tied to appropriations.

Basic Detention Conditions and Enforceable Standards

Minimum rules for food, water, hygiene, shelter, temperature, space, outdoor time, equal treatment, visitor areas, and enforceable facility standards in ICE, CBP, and immigration detention settings.

Families, Children, and Transfer Notice

Whether children and families may be detained, released, held together, subject to Flores-style protections or state licensing, transferred to HHS, or protected through family notice and locator rules when custody location changes.

Private Contractors, Local Facilities, and Facility Accountability

Rules for private detention contracts, contracted or non-DHS facilities, local jails, facility penalties, contract disclosure, and whether detention or supervision should be run by government, nonprofits, or for-profit companies.

Inspections, Public Reporting, and Detainee Tracking

Unannounced inspections, congressional visits, oversight offices, public detention databases, facility data, unresolved recommendations, death reports, locator updates, and reports on harms or removals.

Alternatives to Detention and Community-Based Supervision

Community case management, release presumptions, bond review, least-restrictive conditions, limits on electronic monitoring, and proposals to reduce or end detention and replace it with services.

Pregnancy, Disability, LGBTQ, Trauma, and Solitary Confinement Protections

Special safeguards for pregnant, nursing, and postpartum people; people with disabilities; LGBTQ people; trauma survivors; older adults; caregivers; and people placed in solitary confinement or other isolation.

Legal Access, Communication, and Congressional Casework

Access to lawyers, legal orientation, confidential legal calls, free calls to family and watchdogs, consular contact, language access, handbooks, privacy forms, congressional casework requests, and deportation defense grants.