South Texas Detention Facility

Immigrant detention center in Texas, United States

This article is about the Pearsall TX facility. For the nearby facility in Dilley TX, see South Texas Family Residential Center.

South Texas ICE Processing Center

Location| 566 Veteran Drive
Pearsall, Texas, Frio County
United States, 78061
Coordinates| 28°53′39″N 99°07′15″W﻿ / ﻿28.894301°N 99.120929°W﻿ / 28.894301; -99.120929
Status| Operational
Security class| Mixed Security
Capacity| 1904
Opened| May 2005
Managed by| GEO Group
Warden| Bobby Thompson

The South Texas ICE Processing Center[1] is a privately operated detention facility located in Pearsall, Frio County, Texas, run by the GEO Group to house detainees for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.[2]

The facility holds a maximum of 1904 detainees, male and female, at a mix of security levels. The facility first opened in May 2005 as the "Pearsall Immigration Detention Center" by the Correctional Services Corporation, which was bought by the GEO Group later that year.[3]

A 2015 report from watchdog organizations, Detention Watch Network and the Center for Constitutional Rights, showed that contracts between ICE and five detention facilities in Texas obligated ICE to pay for daily minimum populations. Detention Watch Network says this incentivized ICE to fill the center up to the minimum, effectively creating a quota system. The nightly minimum for this facility was 725, which was regularly exceeded.[4]

## See also[edit]

* List of detention sites in the United States

## References[edit]

1. ^ "South Texas ICE Processing Center". www.geogroup.com. Retrieved 2017-12-26.
2. ^ "South Texas Detention Complex". U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
3. ^ "South Texas Detention Complex". GEO Group. Retrieved 12 September 2016.
4. ^ "Banking on Detention" (PDF). Detention Watch Network. Retrieved 12 September 2016.

## External links[edit]

* McLemore, D. South Texas Detention Center. 2004 description of ICE activities in South Texas, reproduced from Dallas Morning News