Lawyers, family and friends of ICE detainees in Burlington, Massachusetts describe "horrible" conditions including insufficient food and clean drinking water, and no soap, showers, or beds.

ICE detentions have surged, but deportations have not. In the past month, NPR spoke to dozens of detainees, families and lawyers who spoke of overcrowded centers in Florida lacking food and medicine.

Chaos unfolded at a migrant detention center in Newark on Thursday night amid reports that federal officials aren’t properly feeding detainees inside

For some women, the conditions have been particularly grim. In one case, a woman who had her period was denied access to menstrual products. When she needed to clean up, a guard allegedly gave her an extra bottle of water.

Protesters outside a New Jersey federal immigration detention center locked arms and pushed against barricades as vehicles passed through gates and Newark's mayor cited reports of a possible uprising