Mahmoud Khalil, who was studying at Columbia, and Alireza Doroudi, from the University of Alabama, are both being held at an ICE processing center in Jena, Louisiana.

Reports of abuse at a South Louisiana ICE Processing Center led to questions regarding detention center conditions. What to know about ICE centers.

In a piece published Saturday in The Guardian, Southern bureau chief Oliver Laughland covered immigration court hearings at LaSalle, putting the facility within the context of many ICE centers located across the Southeast known as “Detention Alley.”

Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil is being held in an immigration detention facility in Louisiana more than a thousand miles away from where the 30-year-old was arrested in New York in early March. Here’s what to know about the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center, where he’s being detained while he fights to stay in the U.S.

The ICE facilities where Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil and Georgetown University fellow Badar Khan Suri are held have a history of reported abuse and inhumane conditions, experts say.

In a post Saturday on X, the Seattle office for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced that Alvaro Flores-Barboza, 24, had been arrested and is currently detained by local authorities in Oregon. ICE reported that the man is from Venezuela and escaped from the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma on March 26.

The Tacoma Police Department was notified Wednesday night that someone in custody at the Northwest ICE Processing Center had escaped.

New court filings reveal an inmate at an ICE facility in Tacoma used a sweatshirt to scale a perimeter fence and escape last week.