E-Mail
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
Mexico
United-states
Russia
Russian
Molly-grassini
Sophie-terp
Briah-fischer
Parveen-parmary
Sameer-ahmed
Madeline-ross
Public-health
Schaeffer-center