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Study: Half of recent ICE detainee deaths linked to preventable causes
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Researchers say that a significant number of deaths among people detained in ICE facilities have died of preventable causes. File Photo by Justin Hamel/UPI | License Photo
Thirty-five detainees in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, facilities have died since April 2018, often because of preventable causes, such as COVID-19, flu and suicide, according to a new study.
One of them was a Mexican citizen who had first entered the United States two decades ago. He died after a month in custody.
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Medical records indicated the 54-year-old man appeared normal except a heart rate of 103 and pulse oximetry [blood oxygen] reading of 83%.
COVID-19, influenza and suicide are responsible for deaths of ICE detainees
Thirty-five people have died in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) since April 2018, with a seven-fold increase in deaths even as the average daily population decreased by nearly a third between 2019 and 2020, a new USC study shows. Potentially preventable causes of death including COVID-19 infection, influenza and suicide are responsible for at least half of recent deaths, said researcher Sophie Terp, an assistant professor of clinical emergency medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and a clinical scholar at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics.
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Thirty-five people have died in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) since April 2018, with a seven-fold increase in deaths even as the average daily population decreased by nearly a third between 2019 and 2020, a new USC study shows. Potentially preventable causes of death including COVID-19 infection, influenza and suicide are responsible for at least half of recent deaths, said researcher Sophie Terp, an assistant professor of clinical emergency medicine at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and a clinical scholar at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics.
For the study, the USC researchers examined three years of congressionally mandated reports on deaths in ICE custody. Their findings appear in the journal