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The National Immigrant Justice Center’s (NIJC’s) three-year Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation resulted in 2015 in the most comprehensive public release to date of Department of Homeland Security (DHS) immigration detention center contracts and inspections. The thousands of pages of documents provide an unprecedented look into a failed system that lacks accountability, shields DHS from public scrutiny, and allows local governments and private prison companies to brazenly maximize profits at the expense of basic human rights. The project continues to obtain and analyze government documents and other records that shine a light on the obscure U.S. immigration enforcement and detention system.

Browse, search, and download the detention facility documents below, organized by county and detention center name.

 

Read our Reports:

Toolkit: Immigration Detention Oversight and Accountability (May 2019)

ICE Fiscal Mismanagement & Congressional Oversight (February 2018)

Deaths in Detention (February 2016 | June 2018)

Contracts (August 2015)

Inspections (October 2015)

Depositions of ICE Contracting and Inspections Experts (January 2014)

 

More Detention Data

ICE's detention facility list updated monthly at ice.gov

Comprehensive ICE detention facility list (November 2017)
This set of 10 lists includes data on types of contracts, demographics, medical care providers, and inspections history for more than 1,000 federal facilities that detain immigrants, including county jails, Bureau of Prisons facilities, Office of Refugee Resettlement centers, hospitals, and hotels (more on those down below). Customs and Border Protection facilities are not included in the data. Read NIJC's analysis of the data.

Detention Facility Documents

The following links contain documents NIJC and partners obtained via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation between 2015 and 2020 and through state records requests from 2019 to 2024. Some facilities may no longer have active ICE contracts. More recent ICE detention contracts are accessible via the ICE FOIA library.

Adelanto, CA (GEO Group)
Albany County, NY
Baker County, FL
Bedford Heights, OH
Bergen County, NJ
Berks County, PA
Boone County, KY
Bristol County, MA
Broward Transitional Facility, FL (GEO Group)
Buffalo Federal Detention Facility, NY
Butler County, KS
Butler County, OH
Caldwell County, MO
Calhoun County, MI
California City, CA (CCA)
Cambria County, PA
Caroline Detention Facility, VA 
Carver County, MN
Cass County, NE
Central Arizona Detention Center (CoreCivic, formerly CCA)
Charleston County, SC (Sheriff Al Cannon Detention Center)
Chase County, KS
Cibola County Correctional Center, NM (CoreCivic, formerly CCA)
Clay County, IN
Clinton County, PA
Coastal Bend, TX 
Contra Costa County, CA
DeKalb County, AL
Delaney Hall, NJ
Delaware County, PA (George W. Hill Correctional Facility)
Denver Contract Detention Facility, CO (GEO Group)
Dodge County, WI
Dorchester County Detention Center, MD
Douglas County, NE
East Hidalgo, TX
Eastern Regional Jail, WV
El Centro Service Processing Center, CA
El Paso County, CO
El Paso Service Processing Center, TX (Global Precision Systems LLC)
Elizabeth Contract Detention Facility, NJ (CoreCivic, formerly CCA)
Eloy, AZ (CoreCivic, formerly CCA)
Essex County, NJ
Etowah County, AL
Florence Correctional Center, AZ (CoreCivic, formerly CCA)
Florence Service Processing Center, AZ (Asset Protection & Security Services)
Franklin County, MA
Frederick County, MD
Freeborn, MN
Glades County, FL
Hall County, NE
Hampton Roads, VA
Hardin County, IA
Henderson County, NC
Houston Contract Detention Facility, TX (CoreCivic, formerly CCA)
Howard County, MD
Hudson County, NJ
Hutto Correctional Center, TX (CoreCivic, formerly CCA)
Immigration Centers of America Farmville, VA
Imperial Regional Adult Detention Facility, CA 
Irwin County, GA
Jack Harwell Detention Center, TX
James A. Musick Facility, CA
Johnson County, TX
Kankakee County, IL
Karnes County, TX (GEO Group)
Kenosha County, WI
Koegh-Dwyer Correctional Facility, NJ
Krome Service Processing Center, FL
Laredo Processing Center, TX (CoreCivic, formerly CCA)
LaSalle County, TX
LaSalle Parish, LA (GEO Group)
McHenry County, IL
Mesa Verde Detention Center, CA (GEO Group)
Monmouth County, NJ
Monroe County, FL
Monroe County, MI
Montgomery Service Processing Center, TX
Morgan County, MO
Morrow County, OH
Moshannon Valley, PA
Nevada Southern Detention Center, NV
Northeast Ohio Correctional Center/Youngstown Contract Detention Facility, OH
North Georgia Detention Center, GA
Northwest Detention Center, WA (GEO Group)
Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center, VA
Orange County, FL
Orange County, NY
Otero County Prison Facility, NM
Otero County Processing Center, NM
Pike County, PA
Pinal County, AZ
Pine Prairie Correctional Center, LA
Plymouth County, MA
Polk County, IA
Polk County, TX
Port Isabel Service Processing Center, TX (Ahtna, Inc.)
Prairieland Detention Center, TX
Pulaski County Jail, IL (formerly Tri-County Jail)
Ramsey County, MN
Rappahonnock Regional Jail, VA
Rice County, KS
Richwood Correctional Center, LA (LaSalle Corrections)
Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center/Sacramento County, CA
Rio Grande Detention Center, TX
Rolling Plains, TX
San Diego/Otay Mesa Contract Detention Facility, CA (Core Civic, formerly CCA)
San Luis Regional Detention Center, AZ 
Santa Ana City Jail, CA
Seneca County, OH
Sherburne County, MN
South Louisiana Detention Center, LA (GEO Group)
South Texas Detention Complex, TX (GEO Group)
South Texas (Dilley) Family Detention Center
St. Clair, MI
Stewart County, GA (CoreCivic, formerly CCA)
Strafford County, NH
Suffolk County, MA
Tensas Parish, LA
Theo Lacy Facility, CA
Tulsa County, OK
Utah County, UT
Virginia Peninsula Regional Jail, VA 
Wakulla County, FL
Western Tennessee Detention Facility, TN (pre-occupancy documents)
West Texas Detention Facility, TX
Winn Correctional Center, LA (LaSalle Corrections)
Worcester County, MD
York County, PA
Yuba County, CA