DetentionReports.com Provides Valuable Updated Data about ICE Facilities

Austin Kocher – Substack: “Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) released updated detention statistics on Thursday, and we’ve already updated Detention Reports accordingly. The website now includes 184 facility reports based on ICE data from June 23, 2025, and July 21, 2025. Thanks to the valuable feedback of many users, we have already made improvements in the search options for the reports, included a link to our methods paper, and we are beginning to document known issues with ICE’s data as they arise. In our explanation of this new tool earlier this week, we said, “we believe that reporters, researchers, policymakers, and members of the public will find DetentionReports.com timely, original, and valuable as immigrant detention continues its dramatic growth.” On that note, we are thrilled to see reporters using this tool already. We want to express our gratitude to José Olivares at The Guardian for incorporating DetentionReports.com into his excellent article FBI investigates drug-trafficking ‘epidemic’ in prison also housing Ice detainees: ‘A lot of corruption’, as well as Alanna Vagianos at HuffPost for using the data in her article What Happens To The Women ICE Detains?. Since our initial launch of DetentionReports.com, we’ve received tremendous feedback from users, and we’ve already begun incorporating key improvements to make this critical data more accessible to reporters, researchers, advocates, and the public. Many people suggested adding a feature on the main page that allows users to filter for a specific state—an entirely reasonable suggestion given the growing number of ICE detention facilities across the United States and territories. In response, we added a dropdown menu for US states and added search boxes for city and zip code. We maintained the global search bar function, as well…”