Who provides health care for immigration detainees?
Several national media outlets have reported extensively on the quality of health care available to immigration detainees in private detention facilities. Detainee health care is largely provided by an agency of the federal government, the Division of Immigration Health Services (DIHS). DIHS performs one of the most challenging tasks in the detention field—providing health care to thousands of detainees each day. In CCA operated immigration detention facilities, CCA personnel work closely with DIHS and other federal government officials to ensure that the detainees in CCA care have access to timely and appropriate medical care provided by DIHS. Federal officials have provided extensive information regarding the quality of care they provide in detention settings as well as mortality rates. Did the ACLU sue CCA to obtain information about immigration detainees? No. At least one media outlet erroneously reported that ACLU had to sue to obtain information about detainees in private detenti
