Eyes on ICE Relays Marshall Project, 19th Reporting on Bluebonnet Pregnant Detainees and ICE Miscarriage Data

The primary article, read in full on The 19th’s co-publication, is a profile of one detainee identified only as Maria, not a miscarriage-data investigation; see 2026-10-14–the-19th-marshall-project-pregnant-detainee-maria-bluebonnet-six-months-records-show-gestational-diabetes. On ICE’s data it says DHS reported 498 pregnant, postpartum and nursing immigrants booked out of ICE custody from January 2025 to February 2026, and, citing The Guardian, that 18 people miscarried in the first nine months of the administration, with records showing ICE stopped tracking miscarriages after October 2025.

Eyes on ICE, in a synthesis of that Marshall Project and The 19th report dated Oct. 14, 2026, instead states that ICE recorded 18 miscarriages in detention during the first 9 months of 2025 while booking nearly 500 pregnant or nursing women, and that ICE quietly stopped compiling or releasing data on in-custody miscarriages after October 3, 2025, with ICE claiming it has “no updated information”; those pairings, the Oct. 3 date and the quoted ICE phrase are Eyes on ICE’s, not the primary article’s (see the corrections list). DHS disputes the data-stoppage framing: NPR, relaying Guardian U.S. reporting, says the reporting found that ICE has lost track of the number of miscarriages happening in custody, and a DHS spokesperson responded: “ICE tracks miscarriage data and reports the information on a monthly basis.”

The Eyes on ICE piece centers on the Bluebonnet Detention Center in Jones County, Texas, which it says is operated by the private prison conglomerate Management and Training Corporation (MTC) under an Intergovernmental Service Agreement with Jones County and overseen by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Dallas Field Office, under ICE Contract 70CDCR19DIG000017. It reports that poultry served to pregnant detainees at Bluebonnet was routinely pink, cold, and visibly undercooked; the primary article gives that as one detainee’s account (the chicken was pink, cold and watery), while its records-based findings are her high blood pressure, gestational diabetes and low weight gain. The contract number and the Jones County agreement are Eyes on ICE’s and do not appear in the primary article, which says only that Management and Training Corporation runs the facility.

Eyes on ICE also reports that, following 33 reported detainee deaths in 2025 and at least 29 additional deaths recorded by the National Immigration Project (NIPNLG) through October 19, 2026, the DHS Office of Inspector General was forced to announce a formal review of detainee deaths and use of force across ICE custody; the source does not give the date of that announcement. The OIG’s own announcement memo for the detainee-deaths evaluation is dated June 24, 2026; its objective is to determine “whether systemic factors, policies, or processes contributed to detainee deaths that occurred in ICE custody from October 1, 2021, through March 31, 2026,” and it says OIG is conducting the evaluation “because of an increase of detainee deaths in ICE custody each year since fiscal year 2022.” A separate use-of-force evaluation was announced the same day; neither memo names Bluebonnet. NIPNLG’s own post gives the figure as a count for 2026: “As of October 19, 2026, at least 29* people have reportedly died in ICE custody this year”; it is not in addition to the 2025 total.

See also 2025-09-01–ice-pregnant-detainee-crisis-miscarriages-deportations, 2026-06-02–dhs-oig-26-08-unannounced-inspection-winn-correctional-medical-records-use-of-force and 2026-07-21–ice-data-blackout-since-april-2026.