List of immigrant detention sites in the United States

This is a list of detention facilities holding immigrants in the United States. The second Trump administration has expanded immigration detention as part of the administration's mass deportation policy. In January 2025, ICE began to carry out raids on sanctuary cities, with hundreds of immigrants detained and deported.

The United States maintains the largest immigrant detention camp infrastructure in the world, which by the end of the fiscal year 2007 included 961 sites either directly owned by or contracted with the federal government, according to the Freedom of Information Act Office of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). During the period 2007–2009, no fewer than 363 detention camps were used. , the ICE Enforcement and Removal Operation custody management division listed 200 detention centers.

, ICE reported it used 225 detention facilities in the current fiscal year, which began on October 1, 2025. On January 15, 2026, ICE reported holding around 73,000 individuals in custody, the highest level since its founding in 2003.

Authorities listed in the table include

• Contract Detention Facility (CDF): a facility that is owned by a private company and contracted directly with the government.
• Inter-governmental Service Agreement (IGSA): a facility operated by state/local government(s) or private contractors and falls under public ownership (may be family or juvenile facilities).
• Dedicated IGSA (DGISA)
• US Marshal Service (USMS)
• USMS IGA: Intergovernment agreementin which ICE agrees to utilize an already established US Marshal Service contract
• Service Processing Center (SPC): a facility that is owned by the government and staffed by a combination of federal and contract employees.

Centers active in Fiscal Year 2026

Detention facilities used by ICE

The government defines the facility types as follows:

• "Service Processing Center: A facility owned by ICE and generally operated by contract detention staff.
• Contract Detention Facility (CDF): A facility that is owned and operated by a private entity and with which ICE contracts directly for immigration detention services.
• U.S. Marshals Service Inter-Governmental Agreement (USMS IGA): A facility owned by a state or political subdivision of a state. The U.S. Marshals Service contracts with the state or local government for the use of the facility’s detention services through an Intergovernmental Agreement. ICE uses beds at the facility as a rider on the USMS agreement.
• Inter-Governmental Service Agreement (IGSA): A facility owned by a state or political subdivision of a state. ICE uses beds at this kind of facility pursuant to an Intergovernmental Service Agreement with the state or political subdivision of the state.
• Dedicated Inter-Governmental Services Agreement (DIGSA):An IGSA facility of which ICE generally has exclusive use.
• Bureau of Prisons: A facility fully operated under management of the Bureau of Prisons."-
• Staging Location (STAGING): "A special ICE holding area or staging location that under current ICE detention standards is allowed to temporarily house aliens for up to 12 or 16 hours. These types of units generally have no sleeping quarters or shower facilities."
• Hold Room (HOLD): "Temporary hold room or holding location typically at an ICE office location."
• Family Residential Center (FAMILY)

See also

• Immigration detention in the United States
• Detention and deportation of American citizens in the second Trump administration
• List of ICE field offices

References

External links

Further reading

• American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts. 2008. Detention and Deportation in the Age of Ice: Immigrants and Human Rights in Massachusetts. December 2008.
• Corrections Corporation of America. Website. http://www.correctionscorp.com/.
• Fleming, Cory and Fritz Scheuren. Study on the Asylum Seekers in Expedited Removal: Statistical Report on Detention - FY 2000 – 2003. U.S. Department of Homeland Security, February 2005.
• GEO Group, Inc. Website. http://www.thegeogroupinc.com/.
• Pavlik-Kenan, Catrina M. (Immigration and Customs Enforcement Freedom of Information Act Office). 2007. Letter to Michael Flynn (Global Detention Project). 7 November 2007. Geneva, Switzerland.
• Pioneer Human Services. Website. "Juvenile Programs, Pioneer Human Services." http://www.pioneerhumanserv.com/community_links/juvenile.html.
• Southwest Key. Website. "Unaccompanied Minors Program." http://www.swkey.org/Unaccompanied_Minors.html.
• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Website. "Office of Refugee Resettlement." https://web.archive.org/web/20020913061730/http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/orr/.
• U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Website. "Detention Facilities." https://www.ice.gov/detention-facilities. The ICE "FY 2025 ICE Statistics" report also includes a list of its detention facilities on the "Facilities FY25" tab https://www.ice.gov/doclib/detention/FY25_detentionStats08142025.xlsx
• Women's Refugee Commission. 2009. Halfway Home: Unaccompanied Children in Immigration Detention. February 2009.