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Solitary confinement is used in ICE detention facilities as a form of punishment or to protect certain at-risk immigrants.

The United Nations has called solitary confinement longer than 15 consecutive days a form of torture.

WASHINGTON — Use of solitary confinement in immigration detention is soaring under the Trump administration, according to a report published Wednesday by Physicians for Human Rights using federal data and records obtained through Freedom of Information Act requests.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement placed at least 10,588 people in solitary confinement from April 2024 to May 2025, the report found . Contributors also included experts from Harvard Univers

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