Moshannon Valley Processing Center, a large ICE detention facility in west-central Pennsylvania, has drawn many civil rights complaints.

ICE is detaining immigrants in a Burlington office park building that wasn't designed as a holding facility. Lawyers say conditions there are "abysmal" and "unsanitary."

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.

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.

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.