Data: Physicians for Human Rights analysis of ICE detention data; Note: Data from April to December 2024 may be an undercount due to lack of mandatory reporting; Map: Kavya Beheraj/Axios
Immigrant detention centers nationwide are reporting placing more people in solitary confinement in 2025, sometimes for weeks at a time, according to new research.
The big picture: U.S. solitary confinement placements increasingly drag on for 15 days or longer, which the United Nations says constitutes psychological torture, according to a report by Harvard University researchers and Physicians for Human Rights.
