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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) did not always comply with segregation reporting requirements and did not ensure detention facilities complied with records retention requirements. In analyzing a statistical sample of detention files for fiscal years 2015 through 2019, we determined ICE did not:
maintain evidence showing it considered alternatives to segregation for 72 percent of segregation placements;
record 13 percent of the segregation placements as required; and
ensure detention facilities complied with the National Archives and Records Administration’s (NARA) retention schedules. According to ICE officials, 24 of 265 detention files were destroyed, which we found was done before NARA’s minimum retention requirements.
