Human cost · reporting gap after release
Prisciliano Trejo Ricano
A death after release from recent ICE custody. No official in-custody death count includes this person, including every count published on this site.
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The reviewed record
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.
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Which counts include this person
- Included only in this site’s reporting-gap lane of 3 known reviewed cases.
- Not included in the fixed 52-person Human Rights Watch / Physicians for Human Rights cohort, which closes on June 4, 2026.
- Not included in ICE’s in-custody death reporting, which covers deaths in custody and not deaths after release.
How the published totals differ, and why
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Sources
[1]Priciliano Trejo, 29, dies after being detained by ICEDetention Watch Network and partner organizations · advocacy press release · July 30, 2026 · retrieved August 22, 2026
Locator: First page, chronology
Family-attributed chronology, July 15 custody transfer, death date, and reported spelling.
Advocacy source; medical-neglect assertions are allegations, not adjudicated findings.
[4]Mourning Those Who Have Died in ICE CustodyNational Immigration Project · advocacy memorial index · August 4, 2026 · retrieved August 22, 2026
Locator: 2026 list and stated aggregate
Source-defined 24-person calendar-2026 tally that includes the post-release Trejo case; later official-record context.
Advocacy-defined scope differs from the ICE/AILA in-custody index and includes attributed claims.
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