Inside America's immigration detention network, requests for basic necessities were too often met not with answers but with chemical force. Newly disclosed internal records show guards used pepper spray, restraint tactics and physical takedowns on more than a thousand detainees, many of them men simply demanding food, medical attention or access to their belongings.
A Washington Post exclusive investigation based on confidential ICE 'Daily Detainee Assault Reports' found that during the first year of President Donald Trump's second term, detention staff used force 780 times across 98 facilities. The number of detainees subjected to those actions climbed to 1,330, a 54 per cent increase on the previous year.
