A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) watchdog report last month said Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) was abusing detained immigrants through the use of solitary confinement, but we already knew that. This same watchdog last year found that ICE had held immigrants in solitary, which is torture, for months at a time. The year before that, years’ worth of government records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) revealed officials had been intentionally punishing particularly vulnerable detained immigrants with solitary confinement. The use of solitary confinement needs to end now, a nonprofit whistleblower protection agency tells DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. Read more