Recent reports reveal that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has been detaining immigrants in cramped holding cells at a Baltimore courthouse for extended periods, exceeding its own mandated 12-hour limit. Lawyers indicate that some individuals have been held for as long as nine days without necessary amenities like beds, showers, or hygiene products. These practices seem to stem from attempts to accelerate deportations under recent federal policies, raising significant human rights concerns regarding the treatment of immigrants in detention facilities.
ICE's policy stipulates that, "absent exceptional circumstances," no one should be held in these cells for longer than 12 hours. However, detentions have often lasted from 48 hours to nine days.
Several lawyers expressed concern that the conditions violate ICE's own detention standards, highlighting a troubling trend in immigrant detention practices at the Baltimore courthouse.
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