A call for increased transparency and accountability of health care outcomes in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centers

AM Dekker, A Zeidan, J Nwadiuko, E Jordan… - The Lancet Regional …, 2024 - thelancet.com
Concerns over health care in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facilities have
grown over the past decade, including reports of medical mismanagement, inadequate …

Migrant workers, migrants, internally displaced persons, asylum seekers and refugees-The silent sufferers of the COVID-19 pandemic: A brief review of media reports

NK Syed, MA Al-Kasim, S Alqahtani… - Journal of Concurrent …, 2022 - irep.ntu.ac.uk
Like other vulnerable groups, the pandemic has severely and negatively impacted
marginalized groups, including migrant laborers, documented and undocumented migrants …

Advancing Research To Address The Health Impacts Of Structural Racism In US Immigration Prisons: Commentary examines health impacts of structural racism in US …

C Diaz, J Nwadiuko, A Saadi, C Patler - Health Affairs, 2023 - healthaffairs.org
The US is the world leader in imprisoning immigrants. Its mass immigration detention system
emerged as an extension of mass incarceration, rooted in a legacy of racist US immigration …

Emergency Medical Responses at US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detention Centers in California

AM Dekker, J Farah, P Parmar, AB Uner… - JAMA Network …, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Knowledge of medical care in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
detention centers is limited. Reviews show high rates of preventable deaths while in …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of immigration detention on the health of asylum seekers during the COVID-19 pandemic

EK Singer, K Molyneux, K Kaur, N Kona… - … -Qualitative Research in …, 2022 - Elsevier
COVID-19 disproportionately affects racial and ethnic minority groups as well as people in
jails and immigration detention centers in the United States. Between April and August of …

Clinicians' perceptions of the health status of formerly detained immigrants

K Hampton, R Mishori, M Griffin, C Hillier, E Pirrotta… - BMC Public Health, 2022 - Springer
Background In the past decade, the US immigration detention system regularly detained
more than 30,000 people per day; in 2019 prior to the pandemic, the daily detention …

Harmful by design—a qualitative study of the health impacts of immigration detention

C Diaz, V Ortiz, L Sanchez, J Fernandez… - Journal of general …, 2023 - Springer
Background The USA has the largest immigration detention system in the world with over
20,000 individuals imprisoned by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) daily …

Individuals' experiences in US immigration detention during the early period of the COVID-19 pandemic: major challenges and public health implications

CH Lee, N Uppal, P Erfani, RS Sandoval, K Hampton… - Health & Justice, 2023 - Springer
Background Individuals held in carceral settings were significantly impacted by the COVID-
19 pandemic. However, limited research exists of the direct experiences of individuals …

Research in US Immigration Detention—Transparency Through Policy

KR Peeler - JAMA Network Open, 2023 - jamanetwork.com
Out of sight, out of mind: that is the unfortunate reality broadly for the health of people who
are incarcerated and specifically for the health of immigrants who are detained in the United …

Mapping factors associated with deaths in immigration detention in the United States, 2011-2018: a thematic analysis

P Parmar, M Ross, S Terp, N Kearl… - The Lancet Regional …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background Climate change, poverty, and violence increasingly drive migration to the
United States. United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detain some …