Abuses reported through hotline

ICE detention is known for its inhumane conditions and widespread abuses. As advocates, we have the privilege of having both a unique window into the system and access to outside resources and platforms. Freedom for Immigrants strongly believes that we must use that privilege responsibly and towards the abolition of detention.

Through our hotline, we’ve recorded thousands of abuses that take place across immigrant prisons and jail.

Most notably, as described in the graph above, more than a quarter of the abuses we’ve recorded concern medical neglect. Please learn more about medical neglect in detention by reading our report “Detention: A Death Sentence?”

The hotline is also a tool for people in detention to organize and demand better conditions and systemic change.  For example, we represent individuals in filing administrative complaints with the Office for Civil Rights & Civil Liberties at DHS and assist them in getting their story out to a wider audience. For example, you can read this first-hand account of a man detained at the Dodge County Detention Facility, who we were first in touch through our hotline.  Or you can learn more about our work with a group of men at the Otay Detention Center who wanted to demand better conditions and condemn the neglect and abuses they had been suffering under ICE custody.  

To learn more about our investigations and monitoring work, click here.