Putting TRAC to Work
  News Organizations
The Brookings Register
June 26, 2026

Speakout: ICE detention centers are deplorable
By This SpeakOut was submitted by Joanie Holm of Brookings, a career advocate for children.


The Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, or TRAC, reports that 60,311 people were being held in Immigrant Detention Centers in April, 70% of whom had no criminal convictions. The number of children was not disclosed. (TRAC is a data gathering, data research and data distribution program founded by the University of Syracuse in 1989, with the purpose of providing American citizens oversight into staffing, spending and enforcement activities of the federal government, using the Freedom of Information Act — FOIA.)


Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Syracuse University
Copyright 2026
TRAC TRAC at Work TRAC TRAC at Work News Organizations News Organizations