IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/gam/jijerp/v12y2015i11p14414-14419d58732.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Death Rates among Detained Immigrants in the United States

Author

Listed:
  • Megan Granski

    (Center for Health and Human Rights, NYU Langone Medical School, New York, NY 10016, USA)

  • Allen Keller

    (Center for Health and Human Rights, NYU Langone Medical School, New York, NY 10016, USA)

  • Homer Venters

    (Center for Health and Human Rights, NYU Langone Medical School, New York, NY 10016, USA)

Abstract

The United States system of immigrant detention centers has been the subject of considerable scrutiny with respect to health care of detainees. We sought to characterize the rates and types of deaths that have occurred within this system between the years 2003–2015. We analyzed a file of detainee deaths released by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as part of a freedom of information request. Between 2003 and 2015, 150 deaths were recorded. During this time period, the annual rate of death among detainees dropped dramatically, whether measured by annual admissions or by person years of exposure. The most common causes of death were cardiovascular, cancer and suicide. More research is needed to adequately account for the contributors to these declining rates of death in immigration detention settings.

Suggested Citation

  • Megan Granski & Allen Keller & Homer Venters, 2015. "Death Rates among Detained Immigrants in the United States," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 12(11), pages 1-6, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:12:y:2015:i:11:p:14414-14419:d:58732
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/12/11/14414/pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/12/11/14414/
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:12:y:2015:i:11:p:14414-14419:d:58732. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: MDPI Indexing Manager (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.mdpi.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.