“A Place of Repression and Torture for Immigrants” January 2026-June 2026 Six-Month Report on Conditions in Arizona ICE Detention Centers

Check out the report from the Florence Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project. The Florence Project serves people who are detained in three large ICE detention facilities, the Eloy Detention Center (“Eloy” or “EDC”), Florence Detention Center (“FDC”; also known as Florence Service Processing Center), and the Central Arizona Florence Correctional Complex (“CAFCC”). Eloy and CAFCC are private prisons, owned and operated by Corecivic, and FDC is owned and operated by ICE. From January 2026 through June 2026, the Florence Project documented complaints directly from at least 64 people detained in Eloy, FDC, and CAFCC. These complaints ranged from severe medical neglect, denial of specialty care, issues with mail that have affected people's legal cases, and more. In March 2026, Emmanuel Damas, a 56-year-old Haitian immigrant, passed away in CAFCC, reportedly from complications related to a tooth infection that was not treated in detention. His is one of many cases of reported neglect and harm people have experienced in ICE custody in Arizona.