Secret ICE detention center Exposed
- huerfanodems
- 22 hours ago
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'No Concentration Camps in Colorado' teams up with 'Colorado Times Recorder' to expose every secret ICE detention center in the US
Local activists worked alongside investigative journalist Logan Davis of CTR to research and expose the addresses of every one of ICE’s 170 undisclosed hold rooms and how ICE is operating those hold rooms like clandestine detention centers.
(ICE) agency operates a network of 170 unofficial detention sites around the country, called “hold rooms,” according to agency data obtained via the Freedom of Information Act. Located in warehouses, strip malls, office parks, and ICE substations, the facilities are held to different standards than the agency’s official detention facilities. They are not permitted to contain beds, and are not required to contain toilets. Though agency policy limits the time a detainee can be kept in a hold room to 72 hours, federal data show thousands of violations of that rule, including many stays lasting weeks or months at a time.
The Colorado Times Recorder is reporting for the first time comprehensive information, including addresses, on all 170 hold rooms and the more than 140,000 detainees held in them between January and October of last year.