detainee

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Attorneys often cannot find their people for days because ICE’s Online Detainee Locator System is delayed and sometimes does not list them at all.

From Slate • Dec. 12, 2025

Granger served as the ranking medical department officer at Guantanamo Bay, where he was deployed shortly after the attacks on 9/11, and grew heavily involved in Camp X-Ray’s Joint Detainee Operations Group.

From Fox News • Aug. 20, 2021

An M.P. explained to Wood that the current guard force called Detainee 760 “Pillow,” because when they had arrived, several months earlier, a pillow was the only object in his possession.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 15, 2019

A report just last week based on letters sent to a Del Cerro-based group called Detainee Allies between July and November of last year makes similar allegations.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 11, 2019

She warmed to the role of truth-teller, handing over a small library of Detainee Assessment Briefs, or D.A.B.s, from the American holding facility at Guantánamo Bay.

From New York Times • Jun. 12, 2017