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Two more detention facilities in CA, despite state financial woes

26 May 2009 No Comment

Two more detention facilities will be going up in California.

Last week, the AP reported that ICE was seeking proposals to build a privately run 2,200 immigration bed facility in Los Angeles. The facility will be located within a 120 mile radius of the DHS/ICE Los Angeles Field Office currently located at 300 N. Los Angeles Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012. Currently, ICE can house up to 1,400 detainees at a facility owned by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department as well as other local jails it contracts.

Meanwhile, Corrections Corporation of America got the OK to begin construction on a new facility on a 40-acre parcel in east Otay Mesa in San Diego — following last year’s suit from the ACLU against CCA and ICE for poor conditions at its San Diego Correctional Facility.

The facility could be used to house immigrant detainees, and the county predicts that construction could start within the year, although no agreement has been approved by ICE yet.

According to the San Diego Union-Tribune:

“While the company has not contracted with ICE for the new facility, its intent is to retain the agency’s business if the company, known as CCA, loses its existing ICE contract facility. The lease on the land where the San Diego Correctional Facility sits is set to expire in 2015.”

The newspaper also reported that the facility will be built in two phases, with a capacity of 1,488 beds, followed by an additional 684 beds. CCA had initially applied to build a 2,880-bed facility on the site.

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