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A Fourth Guard at an ICE Detention Center Has Died of COVID-19

Immigration detainees sit in a yard at the Winn Correctional Center, a for-profit prison in Louisiana run by LaSalle Corrections, in September.Gerald Herbert/AP For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.A fourth guard at a US immigration detention facility has died as a result of COVID-19, as the virus…

ICE Asked Parents to Choose Between Family Separation and Prolonged Detention—During a Pandemic

A young mother speaks on the phone from a family detention center in Texas in 2016.Ilana Panich-Linsman for The Washington Post via Getty Images For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Last week, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at family detention centers presented parents with a horrifying question, according…

Today Marks the First COVID-19 Death of an ICE Detainee

Detainees in a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Tacoma, Washington. AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.For weeks, the cases of COVID-19 among Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees have been rising. Now, ICE has had its first COVID-19-related death in…

Two Guards at an ICE Detention Center With a Major Coronavirus Outbreak Have Died

Inmates on cots at Winn Correctional Center in Louisiana while Mother Jones’ Shane Bauer worked there as a guard.Shane Bauer/Mother Jones For indispensable reporting on the coronavirus crisis and more, subscribe to Mother Jones’ newsletters.Two guards at Louisiana’s Richwood Correctional Center, where at least 45 people in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody have tested positive…