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Immigrant Deaths in Private Prisons Explode Under Trump

GETTING WORSE

A man killed himself after 19 days in solitary confinement, days before another man died of heart failure.

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DALLAS—Men and women held by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement are on pace to die at double the rate of those who died in ICE custody last year, a Daily Beast review of ICE records found.

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