The aggregate holds the scale. The record holds the person. This page keeps both on screen and never lets one stand in for the other.
Every person in this count had a life beyond the record. Each death left an absence no statistic, statement, or prayer can fill.
The 52 below is a fixed research cohort: the deaths Human Rights Watch and Physicians for Human Rights found recorded in ICE’s Detainee Death Reporting system between January 20, 2025 and June 4, 2026. It is not a live tally and it does not grow. What comes after that cutoff is published in separate lanes — later deaths carrying an official ICE notice, and deaths after release that no official in-custody count includes at all.
Some official source titles below use terminology this project does not adopt. Titles are reproduced verbatim so each record stays traceable to its source. What the record shows.
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Aggregate and one named person
A count within a source window is not a rate, a trend, or a causal claim. Each named record states what its sources establish and what they do not.
People who died while in ICE custody
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January 20, 2025 through June 4, 2026 (first 500 days)
Reported in source
52
Named records indexed here
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The count follows ICE's Detainee Death Reporting scope. It includes deaths recorded during apprehension, in transit, in holding locations, in detention facilities, and after hospital transfer. It is a bounded report snapshot, not a live tally.
›What this count does not establish
The count establishes deaths recorded in the source window. It does not by itself establish cause, preventability, negligence, responsibility, or any contractor’s role in an individual death.
Arrived from Ukraine in August 2024 through the United for Ukraine humanitarian parole program. He and his wife, Oksana Tarasiuk, settled in Florida, where he obtained work authorization and a Social Security number.
›Circumstances as recorded
The cited source reports the suspected cause of death as: Hemorrhagic stroke leading to brain death.
Names, in the order the deaths were recorded. Selecting a name opens that record beside the list; the list does not reorder.
52 named records indexed of 52 reported deaths
Every person in the reported count has a named record on this site.
52 of 52 indexed records shown · chronological by date of death
Selected record
Genry Donaldo Ruiz-Guillen
Age at death
29
Date of death
January 23, 2025
Reported origin
Honduras
Custodial location
Krome North Service Processing Center
Place of death
Larkin Hospital Palm Springs
Days in custody
87
Suspected cause, per Physicians for Human Rights medical review: Unsuccessful cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the setting of hyperosmolarity, hypernatremia, and rhabdomyolysis of unclear etiology
›Circumstances as recorded
The cited source reports the suspected cause of death as: Unsuccessful cardiopulmonary resuscitation in the setting of hyperosmolarity, hypernatremia, and rhabdomyolysis of unclear etiology.
›Why a facility name is not a finding of responsibility
Custodial records associate this person with this facility. This does not by itself establish that the facility or its operator caused or could have prevented the death.
For how observed, attributed, and modeled harm are separated, see the observed harm ledger.
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After the report cutoff
The count above is a closed research cohort that ends on June 4, 2026. People kept dying in ICE custody after that date. These 4 deaths carry an official ICE notice and sit outside the 52 — they are a continuation, not an addition to it.
AILA’s ICE-linked index records that Adrian Andreas Florian died in ICE custody at Valley Baptist Medical Center after a long hospitalization and was last detained at Port Isabel Service Processing Center.
Cause of death recorded as pending.
Detainee Death Report: linked
Facility of last detention before hospitalisation, as published
Port Isabel Service Processing CenterPublished label; not matched to a facility record here
›What this record does not establish
A cause of death, preventability, negligence, or responsibility.
That the named facility or any contractor caused or could have prevented the death.
That an official notice is a complete mortality review.
AILA’s ICE-linked index records that Jesus Manuel Arenas-Silva died in ICE custody during transfer from Irwin County Detention Center to Folkston D. Ray ICE Processing Center.
Suspected cause, per ICE, as summarized by the National Immigration Project memorial listing: Cardiac arrest
Detainee Death Report: linked
Origin facility of the transfer during which the death occurred
AILA’s ICE-linked index records that Edwin Lopez-Cornejo died in ICE custody at University Hospital after detention at Delaney Hall Detention Facility.
Cause of death recorded as pending.
Detainee Death Report: not located as of August 22, 2026
Facility of detention before transfer to University Hospital
These people died after ICE released them. No official in-custody count includes them, including every count on this page. This list is known and incomplete: it is what review has established, not a national universe.
February 27, 2026 or February 28, 2026 — sources conflict
Date of death
March 2, 2026
Place of death
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Reporting policy at release
ICE Directive 11003.6
Official cause: Hypothermia
Manner of death, as classified by the medical examiner: Homicide. The medical examiner stated that the classification does not declare criminal guilt.
Excluded from ICE’s in-custody death reporting because the death occurred after release. The death occurred within 30 days of release, but Directive 11003.6 made post-release review conditional on a request by the ICE Director.
The medical-examiner account cited by AP identifies February 27; other reporting describes release in Pittsburgh on February 28. Do not force a single day without the release record.
Custody context associated with the release, as reported
Washington County Correctional Facility / ICE Alternatives to Detention intake and release contextCustody location as reported; no facility record joined
›What this record does not establish
Criminal guilt by any person or entity.
Civil liability or a final legal determination against ICE.
That every fact alleged by family representatives or public officials has been adjudicated.
Also published as Priciliano Trejo; Prisciliano Trejo
Age
29
Reported origin
Mexico
Released from ICE custody
July 15, 2026
Date of death
July 24, 2026
Place of death
Hospital in Georgia
Reporting policy at release
ICE Directive 11003.7
Reported condition: Aggressive leukemia. No official cause is established in reviewed sources.
Family and advocacy organizations alleged delayed or inadequate access to medical care; this is not an adjudicated finding.
Excluded from ICE’s in-custody death reporting because the death occurred after release.
Family-linked reporting commonly uses Prisciliano Trejo Ricano; Detention Watch Network and NIPNLG publish Priciliano Trejo. Preserve aliases and do not silently normalize the spelling.
Facility of detention before hospital transfer, as reported
Stewart Detention CenterPublished label; not matched to a facility record here
›What this record does not establish
A final official cause of death.
Negligence, preventability, or legal responsibility by ICE, CoreCivic, a clinician, or an individual.
That the timing of release was intended to avoid reporting.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection / U.S. Border Patrol · Rohingya refugee · died February 24, 2026
Official cause: Complications of a perforated duodenal ulcer precipitated by hypothermia and dehydration
Manner of death: Homicide. The medical classification does not by itself establish a crime or criminal guilt.
This is a CBP/Border Patrol case, not an ICE-custody record. It belongs in a future cross-agency enforcement-harm ledger, not the ICE Human Cost aggregate.
Published death counts disagree because they count different things. Each figure below carries its publisher, scope, window, as-of date and inclusion rule. None of them is a live national total, and this site does not compute one.
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Human Rights Watch / Physicians for Human Rights · as of August 22, 2026
People whose deaths were included in ICE’s Detainee Death Reporting system within the report’s study window.
Window: January 20, 2025 to June 4, 2026
Includes
Deaths recorded in the DDR system between January 20, 2025 and June 4, 2026Deaths recorded in that system outside detention facilities, including hospitals
Excludes
Any death recorded after the report’s June 4, 2026 cutoffDeaths after release from custody
Adding this site’s two official lanes together yields 56 records. No publisher has released that figure as one number, and the two lanes do not share a scope: one is a closed research cohort drawn from ICE’s Detainee Death Reporting system, the other is a continuing index of official notices. It is used here only to check that no record is lost between lanes.
internal-reconciliation-only-never-a-public-total: it joins a broad DDR-system research cohort to a continuing official-notice layer, and no publisher has ever released it as one number
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What ICE reports, and what it stopped reporting
Deaths after release are missing from the official ledger partly because of a directive change. The change is stated here no more strongly than the directive text supports.
Superseded · issued February 27, 2025
ICE Directive 11003.6
Included an explicit post-release category for a death within a reasonable time, no more than 30 days after release, when review was requested by the ICE Director.
Section 5.4(3) stated that the Director could, in the Director’s discretion, request OPR and IHSC review of care received in ICE custody.
“post release ... not to exceed 30 days ... review is requested by the ICE Director”
Applies to deaths of individuals in ICE custody in detention or medical facilities, holding rooms, or transit; the former explicit post-release category and discretionary-review clause are absent.
“detention facility, medical facility, holding room, or in transit between facilities”
Directive 11003.6 did not guarantee automatic public reporting of every death within 30 days of release. Its text conditioned post-release review on a request by the ICE Director and described that review as discretionary.
›What the directive change does not establish
That ICE reviewed or reported every qualifying post-release death under Directive 11003.6.
That no federal office can investigate a post-release death under any other authority after Directive 11003.7.
That a person’s release caused a later death or was intended to avoid public reporting.
Records sought and not obtained
A record this project could not obtain is recorded as missing. Absence from an index is not evidence that a death did not occur.
Edwin Lopez-Cornejo Detainee Death Report
not located · as of August 22, 2026
ICE policy generally calls for a DDR within 30 days of a death.
Show official-notice data and a visible “DDR not yet located” source-health state; do not infer contents.
Person-by-person crosswalk for PHR’s “53rd known death” ordinal
not located · as of August 22, 2026
Do not force reconciliation by deleting or reclassifying named records. Show the tally as source-defined and unresolved.
Jose Chajon-Raxon exact death date, cause, and complete hospital/release chronology
not publicly established · as of August 22, 2026
Keep deathDate and cause null. Never manufacture a date from article publication or disclosure date.
Complete national universe of deaths shortly after ICE release
not established · as of August 22, 2026
Label the three-record queue “known reviewed cases,” never complete or comprehensive.
Physicians for Human Rights · advocacy medical statement · August 4, 2026 · retrieved August 22, 2026
Locator: Headline and opening paragraph
A narrower source-defined current-administration ordinal that does not reconcile mechanically with the 52-person broad DDR-system cohort plus four later notices.
No published person-by-person crosswalk explaining the three-record difference was located.