A Cuban immigrant has died inside a privately run immigration detention center in Georgia, adding another grim statistic to the Trump administration's immigration enforcement record. The man, identified as 33-year-old Denny Adán González, was found unresponsive in his living area at the Stewart detention center in Lumpkin, Georgia, around 10:26 PM on Tuesday, according to CoreCivic, the private company that runs the facility. Emergency medical services attempted to revive him, but he was pronounced dead at 11:11 PM.
ICE's notification to Congress, sent Friday and reviewed by the Guardian, lists the suspected cause of death as suicide, though the official cause remains under investigation. González is the 18th person to die in ICE custody in 2026, and the fourth to die by suicide at Stewart specifically. The facility has a grim history: in 2017, a young Panamanian immigrant died in solitary confinement; in 2018, a Mexican man did the same; and last summer, a 45-year-old Mexican man also died by suicide there.
According to the congressional notification, González had been deported in 2020 but re-entered the US in 2022. He was detained by ICE in January after being arrested in December on charges of "assault on a female and domestic violence." The Department of Homeland Security, ICE's parent agency, has been asked for comment, but has not yet responded - perhaps busy tallying the body count.