Who Is Being Taken Into ICE Custody?
Tracing Detention Practices State-by-State
Wednesday June 5, 2013 at 2:00 PM (Eastern US)
- What is TRAC?
- Research Center at Syracuse University (established 1989)
- Co-directors: Professors Susan B. Long and David Burnham
- Self-supporting: Webinar funded by Four Freedoms Fund
- Data obtained by TRAC FOIAs to monitor ICE detention practices
- Where the data come from: ICE case-by-case, detention facility-by-detention facility records containing the custody history of individuals in ICE custody at any time during November - December 2012
- Methodology: complicated data structure
- "book-in" and "book-out" dates for a specific detention facility
- "book-out reason" - see TRAC glossary
- tracing an individual's custody history
- determining state where individual entered ICE custody
- TRAC latest reports: 3 reports thus far in current detention series
- Overview of TRAC Findings:
- Number taken into ICE custody: current pace is running at 1,500 per typical work day or ~400,000/year
- Volume of ICE pickups state-by-state, detention facility-by-detention facility
- Reasons why ICE custody ends: removals versus release; why individuals are released
- Detention length: 40% released within 3 days, 70% within first month, some locked up for years
- State-by-state patterns
- Ongoing TRAC detention studies: examining nationality, transfers among detention facilities, long-stay detention facilities
- Discussion -- attendee questions
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