Epidemiology of Coronavirus Disease 2019 in US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detention Facilities

Public Deposited
Analytics

Downloadable Content

Download PDF
Request Version for Screen Reader
Creator
  • Casanova, Felicia O.
    • Other Affiliation: University of Miami
  • Hamblett, Alice
    • Other Affiliation: Brown University School of Public Health
  • Brinkley-Rubinstein, Lauren
    • Affiliation: School of Medicine, Department of Social Medicine
  • Nowotny, Kathryn M.
    • Other Affiliation: University of Miami
Abstract
  • The US is facing a humanitarian crisis as tens of thousands of people are held in detention centers under Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Practices undertaken by ICE, such as detainment, deportation, and searches, adversely affect the physical and mental health of those who are undocumented. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities have been characterized as unsanitary, unsafe, and inhumane by a recent whistleblower. Home to moldy, uncleaned bathrooms and limited personal hygiene supplies and medical services, facilities pose health risks to people even beyond the context of a global pandemic. Human rights advocates have called for the release of people detained and the suspension of deportation flights. Thus far, ongoing deportation flights have led to documented spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in more than 11 countries. Herein, we describe the COVID-19 burden among people detained by ICE compared with the US population.
Date of publication
DOI
Identifier
Resource type
  • Article
Rights statement
  • In Copyright
License
  • Attribution 3.0 United States
Journal title
  • JAMA Network Open
Journal volume
  • 4
Journal issue
  • 1
Language
  • English
ISSN
  • 2574-3805

Relations

Parents:

This work has no parents.

In Collection:

Items

Thumbnail Title Date Uploaded Visibility Actions
file details casanova_2021_ld_200213_1610136945.69471.pdf 2021-02-01 Public Download