Claim: Detainees at the Prairieland, TX ICE detention center face death by freezing - ICE refuses to turn on heat

[MayReasonRule]

How many people will survive this ICE storm?
Detainees at the Prairieland ICE detention center outside of Dallas, TX, are in danger of freezing to death because ICE refuses to turn on the heat despite it being 13°F.
1/26/26

#FuckICE #ICEDetentionCenter #Texas #Resist #ProudBlue #Pinks

— SaltyBitchables (@saltybitchables.bsky.social) 2026-01-26T17:22:47.096Z

Any other sources for this as of yet?

[MineralMan]

1. Are they refusing or is there a power outage?

Lots of power failures in Texas right now. Still, those being detained need heat. Something needs to be done about that and right away.

[MayReasonRule]

3. A Fair Question Although, No Way A Facility That Large Doesn't Have Back Up Generators

ICE was funded with $75 Billion additional appropriations.
They've really got no excuse if this is indeed confirmed as being factual.

Needless, perpetual Machiavellian cruelty forms the largest part of the fascist playbook.

Absent depravity fascism ceases to exist.

Past behavior is the prime indicator regarding the likelihood of this being correct.

My current prediction is that this is purposeful infliction of pain, suffering and potential death.

Here's to me being wholly incorrect.

[MineralMan]

5. Yeah. I have no way of knowing what is going on there.

I did a search to see if there was any more information available, but had little success.

As for the facility, I don't know what its status is or anything about it. They're running a bunch of makeshift detention arrangements, though. I know that, so this may be one that is not really ready to deal with cold weather while housing lots of people.

Sadly, I don't know how we can learn more at this moment.

[MayReasonRule]

7. Thank You For Looking Into It Further...

[efhmc]

10. You can bet someone is making money off of that "center".

[MineralMan]

11. No doubt.

There are probably kick-backs going out, too.

[gab13by13]

2. They aren't detention centers,

they are concentration camps.

If they were in a prison, they would have rights.

[MayReasonRule]

6. Unfortunately Dead On Point

[haele]

9. Depends. A step relative of my spouse died in a Texas prison

Right after the last big freeze. His health had been irredeemably harmed through long term hyperthermia.
The private prison he was in had made no advance cold weather preparations, were constantly "reactive" - as in waiting as long as possible to reach back to the State for additional required resources, and constantly blaming lack of funding or that performing critical cold-weather actions to keep inmates healthy even if not comfortable, "wasn't contracted for".

There's a historic attitude amongst Texas officials about detainees - they love to ensure "them that's worthless" are properly punished, if not just disposed of outright as a waste of time and money.
It's almost as if it was a state primarily created by and for slave owners.

[struggle4progress]

4. "We didn't kill them. They just died of cold and starvation and typhus. It wasn't our fault"

[struggle4progress]

8. ... To comment on the services provided at this office, please write to:

Assistant Field Office Director, Enforcement and Removal Operations
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Prairieland Detention Center
1209 Sunflower Lane
Alvarado, TX 76009
[phone]

https://www.ice.gov/detain/detention-facilities/prairieland-detention-facility

[Greg_In_SF]

12. How does

she know the heat is not on? Has she been inside?