Capacity: 700
Client: U.S. Immigration & Custom Enforcement (ICE)
Accreditations: American Correctional Association (ACA)
In August 2002 a contract was awarded by the U.S. Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) to provide a transition center for short-term non-criminal and low security detainees. GEO was re-awarded the contract in July 2008 for a five-year period through 2014. This new contract increased services to provide for additional female residents. A sizeable and upscale recreation area was recently made available to detainees.
The center provides a safe, secure, and humane environment that promotes the welfare and socialization of detainees. Realistic self-help education programs are provided and detainees are encouraged to participate in various intra-institution work assignments. Individual social, psychological, medical and religious counseling is available. A robust transportation system performed by the GEO Transportation Inc. (GTI) supports ICE ground and air operations.
This unique community resource represents one of the few “purpose-built” community correctional centers of this size in the United States. The center consists of a two-story building designed and constructed to blend in with the community setting and to provide privacy, separation by gender, and full support space for the residents and staff. The facility features a kitchen building, expanded medical clinic and courtroom areas as well as a 14,000 square foot office building for client use.
In less than a year of operation, the center was awarded accreditation by the American Correctional Association (ACA) in 1999. The center was reaccredited in 2002, 2005, 2008, 2003, 2014, and 2017 with a score of 100%.