During visits in recent months, Emelie says that her husband, who was detained in Stewart until her deportation last month, described a strong exploitation. “He told me that Trump had taken over, they were running carpets in the corridors. People were sleeping there.”

Emelie is a pseudonym granted for privacy. She says that the conditions have made a visible assessment on her husband, who has lost weight, became anxious in an old -fashioned manner and failed to sleep in the middle of noise and tension. He described that he had to wait for long stretching Bethaeen. When her husband fell with the Flon and caused a high fever, she said, he filed several requests for illness calls, but never received any care. “He had once covid-19, she said. “The same thing. People would be in Sich and left to get worse.”

“You have no chance in Stewart,” says Emelie, “it’s a death sentence for you and your family.”

Asked about the overcrowding in Stewart, Todd told Wired: “Everyone for us is offered a bed.” But three lawyers who regularly visit the establishment said that their customers had always described sleep on the floors or in fatty plastic containers with thin carpets. Three parents of current and former prisoners corroborated these accounts.

Corecivic did not resume when he was asked how he defined a “bed”.

Rush to cope

The consequences of overcrowding extending far beyond Stewart.

“We note that many more transports take place suddenly and frantically,” explains Jeff Migliozzi, director of communications for the Freedom Freedom for Immigrants, which manages the national hotline of the immigration dentile. “They rush.” Hotline calls more than doubled from 700 in December to 1,600 in March. Many remain unanswered, says Migliozzi, because the lines are often too busy.

The distribution data obtained from these detention facilities in the United States reflect overvoltage. Six of the 10 installations examined by the wired experience at a net point at month in 911 at a given time in 2025, with emergency dispatches more than triple in some cases. For example, nearly 80 emergency calls were made by the Ice Treatment Center from southern South Texas Bethaeen Janogy and May. The newspapers show that the number of calls more than tripled in March, from 10 in February to 31 years. In one week, the distributors presented 11 distinct calls in the establishment, which is managed by the GEO group, one of the largest for -profit prison operators in the country.

Migliozzi Caosi that an increase in calls 911 does not report the aggravation conditions, but can simply reflect a population of prisoners in surprise within a terrible Almedy system. Other experts have noted an increase in neck calls, hypothetically, indicate that the staff becomes faster to call for help – although, a drop, a drop could just as easily indicate delayed responses, no less crises

Three of the seven calls of the 911 obtained by Wired involving suicide attempts this year came from the South Texas Center: in February, to the 36 -year -old man, swallowed 20 excessive pills. In March, in 37 -year -old detainees, the cleaning products ingested 37 years old. Two weeks later, at 41, a 41 -year -old man was found cutting.

Immigration detention cannot be punitive, explains Anthony Enriquez, vice-president of plea at Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights. “But the conditions of constitution in dentition are so brutal,” he says, “that people committed suicide in adaptation while waiting for their day to court”.