Investigation Finds Suicide Rate Among ICE Detainees Has Increased over the Past Year
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The ICE Detainee Suicide Crisis Is the Worst in the Agency's History and the Deaths Keep Coming
Brayan Rayo Garzon slipped two handwritten notes under his cell door on his fourth day in isolation at a Missouri jail. He was 26, sick with COVID-19 and had not been allowed to speak to his mother in days. He asked the guards to let him call her. Within an hour, he was found unconscious with a sheet around his neck. He died shortly after at a St. Louis hospital. An Associated Press investigation identified Rayo’s April 2025 death as the first i…
ICE is under pressure from preventable deaths, isolation, medical delays, and internal failures in immigration detention centers. By Ryan J. Foley / Michael Bisecker / Morgan Lee Brayan Rayo Garzón was distressed. After being detained by the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service (ICE), he began his fourth day of isolation in a Missouri prison while fighting fevers and chills caused by COVID-19. His mental health treatment request had been …
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