AP Investigation: ICE Detainees Are Dying by Suicide at an ‘Alarming’ Rate

An Associated Press investigation, published by PBS NewsHour, documents a rising count of suicides inside ICE custody amid the Trump administration’s detention build-out. The story centers on Brayan Rayo Garzón, who hanged himself on his fourth day of isolation in a Missouri jail after COVID-19 symptoms went untreated, his request for mental-health care was put off, and staff barred his nightly call to his mother. AP found a pattern of facilities placing detainees in solitary confinement and delaying medical and psychiatric care before deaths.