A Cuban immigrant died inside an immigration detention center in Georgia earlier this week, according to a congressional notification sent on Friday and reviewed by the Guardian.

The Cuban man, identified as 33-year-old Denny Adán González, died inside the privately run Stewart detention center. His death is being investigated as a suicide.

The man is the 18th person to die in 2026 in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement ( ICE ), the agency tasked with carrying out Donald Trump’s anti-immigration agenda .

On Thursday evening, CoreCivic, the private company that runs the Stewart facility in Lumpkin, Georgia, confirmed the death in a statement to the Guardian, without providing many details.

According to the company, on Tuesday night at around 10.26pm, CoreCivic staff inside the facility “called a medical emergency after finding an unresponsive individual inside of his living area”.

The CoreCivic statement added that emergency medical services arrived and attempted to save the man’s life,…