detainee

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After hours at the police station, the detainee was released, and authorities said his arrest warrant was no longer valid.

From Barron's • Mar. 17, 2026

Last year, 33 people died while in the custody of ICE, according to detainee death reports published by the Department of Homeland Security.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 6, 2026

If you went online to the detainee locator, a lot of the time it would say the person is in custody, but it would not tell you where they were.

From Slate • Feb. 17, 2026

Campos’s death is the second at the violation-heavy Camp Montana East and the fourth death of an ICE detainee so far in 2026.

From Salon • Jan. 16, 2026

The detainee who is wise enough to realize this will never find any cause for complaint, but only all conceivable help, to erase the memory of what he had been accused of.

From My Life and My Efforts by Olesch, Gunther