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A Florida Detention Center Was the Harshest in the Country. Then ICE Stopped Tracking Details on Use of Force.

Leaked reports showed troubling uses of force and restraint chairs at the Krome North Service Processing Center—until the details disappeared.

C.J. Ciaramella | 5.22.2026 4:10 PM

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A South Florida immigrant detention center that's been the subject of numerous allegations of poor conditions and abuse was the national leader in using physical force against detainees, according to leaked incident reports.

Use-of-force data published by The Washington Post in conjunction with a May 4 story show that staff at the Krome North Service Processing Center, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center on the western edge of Miami-Dade County, reported more uses of physical force against immigrant detainees than any other detention center over a two-year period.

The Post culled the data from hundreds of internal ICE emails, called the "Daily Detainee Assault Report," which summarizes incidents of physical force against detainees. The reports covered 98 ICE detention facilities from January 2024 to February 2026, covering the last year of the Biden administration and the first year of President Donald Trump's second term in office.

The data show that Krome reported 176 uses of force over 26........

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