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Reported: ICE utilizing federal prisons for immigration detention

  1. Original Date Announced

    February 7, 2025

    The Associated Press reports that DOJ's Bureau of Prisons (BOP) is allowing ICE to use federal prisons to house immigrants detained during recent immigration-enforcement actions. Sources revealed that federal jails in Los Angeles, Miami and Philadelphia and federal prisons in Atlanta, Leavenworth, Kansas, and Berlin, New Hampshire, are among the facilities. Miami will receive up to 500 detainees.

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    2025.02.07 Federal prisons being used to detain people arrested in Trump's immigration crackdown - AP News
  2. Effective Date

    February 7, 2025
  3. Subsequent Trump and Court Action

    July 15, 2025

    2025.07.25 Reported: Irish tourist detained by ICE and held in federal prison after overstaying visa

    The Guardian reports that an Irish tourist was detained after overstaying his visa by just three days due to medical reasons. Although he immediately signed a removal order when he was arrested in December, he remained in ICE custody for approximately 100 days. Due to overcrowding, he spent part of his detention in a federal prison for criminal defendants in Atlanta. He reported that the conditions and treatment in federal prison were worse than ICE detention. A spokesperson for the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) confirmed that he had been in their custody but declined to discuss his specific case or facility conditions. They noted that BOP currently holds ICE detainees in eight prisons and will continue collaborating to carry out the administration's policy objectives.

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Current Status

None

Original Trump Policy Status

Status: Reported
Trump Administration Action: Change in Practice
Subject Matter: Detention Enforcement
Agencies Affected: ICE DOJ

Commentary

  • 2025.02.07 - Government Executive: Federal prisons to house ICE detainees as Trump furthers immigration crackdown

    Government Executive reports that Bureau of Prisons employees characterize their prior experience housing ICE detainees under the first Trump administration as a "disaster." Corrections officers question their legal jurisdiction over detainees and highlight the inappropriateness of subjecting detainees to prisons' "extremely restrictive conditions." Eunice Cho, a senior staff attorney at the ACLU National Prison Project, suggests the use of prisons serves no legitimate purpose and "blurs the line" between civil and criminal detention.

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  • 2025.02.25 - ACPC - ICE transfers detainees to Atlanta’s federal prison

    Atlanta Community Press Collective reports that transfers of immigrant detainees to federal prison have disrupted detained immigrants’ access to legal counsel. Attorneys have no information about how to contact their clients, and advocates say overcrowding and inhumane conditions are "just as much of an issue in Atlanta’s federal prison as in ICE facilities."

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