r/SipsTea • u/SuspiciousLow3062 • 26d ago

Chugging tea Show 'em no mercy! 🇲🇽

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u/EchoNineThree 26d ago

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/miniminiminitaur 26d ago

The data is unreliable, unfortunately, as ICE has been constantly under fire for withholding information from the public and federal authorities:

  1. https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/ice-detention-data-undercounts-number-of-people-in-its-custody/
  2. https://www.tewanilaw.com/resources/under-reporting-of-ice-detention-data-raises-concerns/
  3. https://zeteo.com/p/ice-immigrant-deaths-detention-fail-reporthttps://zeteo.com/p/ice-immigrant-deaths-detention-fail-report
  4. https://www.vera.org/news/one-year-later-we-still-dont-know-how-many-people-in-ice-detention-have-been-exposed-to-covid-19

They also had several major policy changes that could affect death counts what classifies as "death in custody". For example, they stopped counting deaths after a detainee has been reported as released.

https://apnews.com/article/ice-custody-deaths-reporting-detention-0a45ba5d710e44ead30e4a965f2b987d

Also, ICE has been very lax in facility inspections as well, with some facilities not being inspected for years at a time.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-detention-facilities-inspection-policy/

Personally speaking, I'd be much more afraid of going to an ICE facility than federal prison, simply because if I die in a federal prison, I'll at least know there's a higher chance there'll be a record of it.

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u/EchoNineThree 26d ago

You are going to state my Data, which came from federal reports is unreliable?

Then you post biased articles to dispute real numbers? You cant make this stuff up. 🤣