Global Detention Project | Mapping immigration detention around the world

The U.S. decision to deport former Ecuadorian Interior Minister Jose Serrano reveals how the Trump administration’s controversial deportation practices are vulnerable to political manipulation. The deportation, which occurred despite a court finding that Mr Serrano could be tortured in Ecuador, was an important political objective of current Ecuadorian President Daniel Noboa…...

In 2020, Mexico passed amendments to its General Law on the Rights of Children and Adolescents and Migration Law which expressly prohibited the immigration detention of children and adolescents–in line with the growing international consensus that immigration detention is never in their best interests. However, despite these amendments, Mexico has effectively replaced the use...

On 15 September, U.S Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) removed the locations of individuals with final orders of removal from its Online Detainee Locator System. Responding to this development, a coalition of NGOs has called on the UN Working Group on enforced or involuntary disappearances to intervene. Established in 2010, ICE’s Online Detainee Locator System (ODLS) ...

In a response to a call for input from the UN Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment on addressing prison overcrowding, the Global Detention Project (GDP) highlights the use of prisons and other custodial facilities for immigration detention purposes, and urges recommendations to reduce the use of such sites.

Event: Jesuit Refugee Service USA – “The Expanding Global Detention System as a Pillar of Externalized Enforcement: How We Reached this Point, a Normative Human Rights Framework, and Pushing Back Against Extremist Policies” Moderator: Donald Kerwin (JRS/USA Senior Ignatian Fellow) Panellists: Michael Flynn (Global Detention Project Executive Director); Dr Izabella Majcher (Co...