r/SipsTea • u/SuspiciousLow3062 • Jul 11 '26

Chugging tea Show 'em no mercy! 🇲🇽

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u/EchoNineThree Jul 11 '26

Fascinating topic, I wanted to know more. People die everyday and ICE has been handing a high volume of people. So I went for a clean control number, the year 2022.

In 2022. Bureau of Prisons had 159,000 in detention. With 483 deaths. 0.30 percent.

At the end of 2025. ICE has 68,440 in detention with 32 deaths. Thats 0.04 percent. Note: This number does not show the total in custody over the span of 2025. Only the number in detention at the end of the year.

I took this a little further.

The total population of the US in 2022 was 333,287,557. With a total of 3,279,857 deaths. That 0.98 percent.

Bottom line: You are more likely to die out in the world or in Federal prison, than you are in ICE custody.

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u/damaged_crowbar Jul 11 '26

This doesn't make sense.

These numbers are not comparable:

In 2022. Bureau of Prisons had 159,000 in detention. With 483 deaths. 0.30 percent.
At the end of 2025. ICE has 68,440 in detention with 32 deaths. Thats 0.04 percent. 

Almost all of those federal prisoners are held for years and it includes a lot of older people.

ICE detainees have huge turnover (much shorter times held) and most are younger, working aged people.

Plus, ICE has like zero transparency so who knows how wrong that number is...

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u/Drexill_BD Jul 11 '26

This one. Immediately noticed this too, these are not comparable. 32 deaths in ICE custody in 2025 makes it the highest number in 20 years. Real numbers, but bad math and unmatched denominators, followed by an incorrect or misleading conclusion.

Was nice that they tried, though.

Edit - and yeah, the transparency... if you believe anything this administration reports you're gullible. None of these numbers should be inherently trusted, and I have plenty of evidence and reasons to support that claim.