News & Commentary written by Kyle Virgien

Kyle Virgien is a Senior Staff Attorney at the ACLU National Prison Project. He focuses on challenging unconstitutional conditions of confinement in ICE detention facilities and limiting the expansion of immigration detention. He has represented people held in large detention centers, tent camps, and hold rooms in Arizona, California, Florida, Louisiana, Michigan, New York, Texas, and Guantánamo Bay. His cases have addressed conditions including poor medical care, barriers to accessing counsel, solitary confinement, and abusive treatment by staff. He also litigates Freedom of Information Act cases seeking records about ICE’s mass detention network.