ICE’s Louisiana Network of “Black Hole” Detention Centers
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on March 31, 2025
In 2024, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) published a 108-page report, Inside the Black Hole: Systematic Human Rights Abuses Against Immigrants Detained & Disappeared in Louisiana. The report covers all nine of the Louisiana ICE jails, and is based mainly on interviews with 6,384 people.
Here is a small taste of what the ACLU report reveals about the Basile jail:
A woman . . .
