South Louisiana ICE Processing Center
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| Location | 3843 Stagg Avenue, Basile, Louisiana, United States |
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| Coordinates | 30°29′14″N 92°34′58″W / 30.4873°N 92.5829°W |
| Status | Operational |
| Security class | Mixed Security |
| Capacity | 1,000 |
| Opened | 1993 |
| Managed by | GEO Group |
| Warden | N/A |
South Louisiana ICE Processing Center (previously South Louisiana Correctional Facility) is a privately owned and operated prison facility under contract to the federal government. It is located on the eastern edge of Basile in Acadia Parish, Louisiana.
History
[edit]The facility was opened in 1993 to serve state, federal and local uses by the private prison company LCS Corrections Services.[1] It was later acquired by Wackenhut Corrections Corporation, renamed as The GEO Group, Inc. in 2004.[2] The facility has a capacity of 1,000.
The facility had initially housed primarily inmates for the state's Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections. It housed both male and females at a mix of minimum, medium, and maximum security, with a capacity of 1,048.
It was also used to house some persons detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) prior to hearings or deportation. In July and August 2009, a hundred ICE inmates at this facility staged a series of five hunger strikes to protest substandard conditions and lack of appropriate medical care.[3][4]
Somewhat later, the state relocated many of its inmates to other properties, and this facility became idle. But in April 2019, GEO signed a contract modification with ICE to reactivate the facility for exclusively federal use, under an "existing intergovernmental service agreement between Evangeline Parish, Louisiana and ICE".[5] Beginning intake in third quarter 2019, the facility is now used exclusively to house male and female ICE detainees awaiting immigration court hearings and/or deportation. It is under the supervision of the ICE Field Office in New Orleans.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "South Louisiana Correctional Center". LCS Correction Services. Archived from the original on February 15, 2015.
- ^ "Locations | South Louisiana ICE Processing Center". The GEO Group, Inc.
- ^ "Immigrant Detainees Stage Hunger Strikes in Louisiana". news.newamericamedia.org. Archived from the original on August 10, 2009.
- ^ "Immigrant Detainees Staging Hunger Strikes to Protest Deplorable Confinement". www.truth-out.org. Archived from the original on March 20, 2014.
- ^ "The GEO Group Announces Signing of Contract Modification with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for the Reactivation of the Existing 1,000-Bed South Louisiana ICE Processing Center" (PDF) (Press release). Business Wire. April 25, 2024. Archived from the original (PDF) on November 27, 2022. Retrieved July 2, 2024 – via Immigration Policy Tracking Project.
- ^ Lee, Morgan (March 28, 2025). "Immigrant students and scholars are being detained at remote facilities in Louisiana over objections". AP News. Retrieved March 30, 2025.
External links
[edit]- "Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse". Syracuse University., data on immigration and people detained by law enforcement agencies
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