When she arrived at Eloy Detention Center in Arizona last year, asylum seeker Narges Dehghani said she was at her most vulnerable.
Iranian dissident Narges Dehghani, pictured here in a video call from Eloy Detention Center in November 2025, has now been held in ICE detention for 14 months as she awaits the outcome of her asylum petition.
Emily Bregel, Arizona Daily Star
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One immigrant was sent to solitary confinement for refusing to self-deport. A teenager lost 20 pounds. One man attempted suicide. Experts say it's unconstitutional.
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In this 2022 photo, Iranian dissident and Eloy detainee Narges Dehghani was celebrating a friend's birthday in the countryside, about 40 minutes outside her city of Shiraz, Iran.
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Craig Haney, Craig Haney, a UC Santa Cruz psychology professor and solitary confinement expert, said using solitary confinement as suicide watch is not only "inappropriate," but "dangerous." The highest rates of suicide for incarcerated individuals are among those in solitary confinement, he said.
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After spending a cumulative four months in solitary confinement during his eight months at Eloy, Cuban asylum seeker Jordano Casanova accepted a voluntary departure to Mexico in February. "I don't want to suffer here anymore," he wrote to the Star from Eloy Detention Center. Casanova has no criminal record except for a traffic citation for driving without a valid license. He left behind a wife and three young children in Goodyear, Arizona.
Emily Bregel, Arizona Daily Star
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Margo Schlanger, a University of Michigan law professor and expert on civil rights, calls this view "extremely misguided," as isolation exacerbates suicidal thoughts, although jails and prisons often argue suicidal individuals are safer in an isolated, suicide-resistant cell where they can be watched. "It's a really bad idea to put somebody who's having suicidal thoughts into isolation. It's a terrible, terrible idea," Schlanger said.
University of Michigan
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Illustration by Krishna Mathias, Lee Enterprises
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Maksim Borisov is pictured during his time detained at Eloy Detention Center in Arizona. Borisov said he bought the photos and got them printed using money from his commissary account.
Courtesy of Maksim Borisov
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Syrian asylum seeker Kamel Maklad, who has no criminal record, spent a cumulative five months in solitary confinement at Eloy Detention Center. After winning "withholding of removal" to his home country, where an immigration judge agreed he'd face threats to his life, ICE spent more than a year trying, and failing, to find a third country to deport him to. After two years and four months at Eloy, Maklad was released in December 2025 after a successful habeas corpus petition challenging the legality of his continued detention.
Emily Bregel, Arizona Daily Star
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Syrian asylum seeker Kamel Maklad was released from Eloy Detention Center in December 2025, after a successful habeas corpus petition. Maklad, who has no criminal record, now lives near Atlanta, Georgia with his cousin, where he said he's still working to recover from his time in detention, particularly his cumulative five months in solitary confinement.
Contributed photo
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Narges Dehghani, reflected in the mirror of her yoga and dance studio in Iran, celebrates her 29th birthday with her yoga clients, in 2023.
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Contact reporter Emily Bregel at ebregel@tucson.com . On X, formerly Twitter: @EmilyBregel
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