At least 20 people dead in ICE custody in 2025
The Broadview, IL prison is just one part of a nationwide network of extrajudicial blacksites and torture centers.
The Trump admin’s abuses at the notorious Alligator Alcatraz are shocking. Excessive heat, unlivable sanitation conditions, 30+ people in a cage with 3 toilets, some inoperable, with drinking spigots connected to toilet tanks.4
After observing the conditions at Alligator Alcatraz, Rep. Maxwell Frost said, “What I saw made my heart sink.” Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz called it an “internment camp.”5
The Miami Herald reported that ICE has disappeared over 1,000 people taken into custody at Alligator Alcatraz. Families are panicked and lawyers don’t know where the detainees are.6
Senator Jon Ossoff documented hundreds of human rights abuses at ICE prisons nationwide, including pregnant women sleeping on floors in overcrowded intake cells and children denied medical attention.7 Together with Sen. Raphael Warnock, he has pressed the administration about the alarming rate of deaths and abuse at ICE prisons.8
As Trump deploys greater numbers of violent, masked ICE gangs to take more people into custody, we need our elected leaders to launch a full-blown investigation into ICE prisons and end these abuses NOW.
We’ve mobilized tens of thousands of people to demand an investigation into the horrific conditions at ICE prisons, and we need to ramp up this effort immediately.
Will you donate today to support our work, including our fight to shut down Alligator Alcatraz and ICE’s network of torture prisons?
The team at Demand Progress Action
At least 20 people have died in ICE custody under the Trump regime in 2025. It’s the deadliest year for ICE prisons in over two decades.1
One of the worst is in Broadview, IL. Sources:
- NPR, "It's the deadliest year for people in ICE custody in decades; next year could be worse,” October 23, 2025.
- Common Dreams, "New Lawsuit Details ‘Horrific and Inhumane Conditions’ in ICE Broadview Facility,” October 31, 2025.
- Ibid.
- USA Today, "'Help me!' Democrats decry 'vile' conditions at 'Alligator Alcatraz' immigrant prison,” July 14, 2025.
- Ibid.
- Miami Herald, "Hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees drop off the grid after leaving site,” September 16, 2025.
- NBC News, "Hundreds of alleged human rights abuses in immigrant detention, report finds,” August 5, 2025.
- Sen. Warnock Press Release, "Warnock, Ossoff Press Trump Administration Over Deaths in ICE Custody,” September 23, 2025.
A new lawsuit describes horrific conditions at the Broadview prison: “There is blood, other bodily fluids, and hair in the sinks and on the walls.” Hundreds of people are pushed into cells “like a pile of fish” and “treated worse than animals.”2
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