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McALLEN, Texas (Border Report) -- Migrants who are detained and booked by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents often are kept successful detention facilities that are privately managed and run over-capacity, according to caller data.
The nonprofit Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) recovered that connected April 14, ICE's contractual capableness nationally was 62,913 -- that's the full fig of disposable beds astatine 181 authorized detention facilities with which the bureau had agreements to location migrants. Nationally, ICE held 48,056 migrants successful detention that night, meaning its utilization of beds was conscionable 3 retired of 4, oregon 76%.
But 45 of the 181 facilities exceeded their contractual capableness that night: 8 of these facilities exceeded their contractual capableness by astatine slightest 100 detainees; 24 exceeded the declaration by betwixt 10 to 100 detainees, and the remaining 13 facilities exceeded the contractual capableness by less than 10 people, according to the study released Tuesday by TRAC.
Two-thirds, oregon 30 of the facilities with colonisation counts exceeding capableness that day, were region jails, but lone 1 region jailhouse -- successful Brazil, Indiana -- exceeded capableness by 100 detainees, the study says.
However, 13 facilities, oregon 29% were operated by backstage contractors managed by CoreCivic, LaSalle Corrections, and Geo Group, among others, and they relationship for the bulk of facilities that exceeded contractual capableness by astatine slightest 100 beds. And 2 facilities with populations exceeding capableness connected April 13 were operated by national agencies, TRAC says
(TRAC Graphic)The Karnes County Detention Facility, operated by the GEO Group successful South Texas, is 1 of the facilities that exceeded contractual capableness during that April 13 snapshot date, TRAC says. In information it had the third-most days operating over-capacity from October done mid-April, according to the report.
Several facilities operating successful Texas were cited for operating over-capacity.
The Krome North Service Processing Center successful Miami was cited having the astir over-contractual capableness counts from October 2024 done mid-April, according to TRAC. Krome operated triple its capableness bounds astatine slightest 1 nighttime successful Fiscal Year 2025, the study says.
Other over-capacity facilities include:
- Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center successful Pine Prairie, Louisiana, operated by the GEO Group.
- Stewart Detention Center, Lumpkin, Georgia operated by Core Civic.
- Prairieland Detention Center successful Alvarado, Texas, operated by LaSalle Corrections
- San Luis Regional Detention Center successful San Luis, Arizona, operated by LaSalle Corrections
- The Clay County Justice Center successful Brazil, Indiana, operated by the Clay County Sheriff's Dept.
Sandra Sanchez tin beryllium reached astatine SSanchez@BorderReport.com.
