Trump Administration Closes Office Investigating Detention Abuse Amid Rising Deaths in ICE Custody

Source: International Business Times

Guards at the Adelanto Detention Facility in Adelanto, California. The Trump administration has moved to shut down the federal office responsible for investigating abuse and misconduct in immigration detention facilities, even as deaths in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody continue rising at a record pace and detention capacity expands nationwide. According to an internal Department of Homeland Security email obtained by HuffPost, the Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman (OIDO) has begun removing its public signage, halting inspections, and taking its website offline.