Protests at a NJ detention center spark a DHS probe after officers allegedly used a chokehold and stabbed another with a pen—hunger strike linked to the pressure.
Multiple recent reports have revealed unsafe conditions across U.S. immigration detention sites and a rising death rate since January 2025. Federal watchdog and medical examiner findings have shown missing evidence, inadequate medical care, suicides and a homicide ruling after a Haitian asylum seeker died days after release. Protests and hunger strikes are escalating at privately run centres.