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| Location | Raymondville, Willacy County, Texas, United States |
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| Coordinates | 26°28′03″N 97°45′57″W / 26.46750°N 97.76583°W |
| Status | Closed |
| Security class | Immigration detention facility |
| Capacity | 3,000 |
| Population | 1,453 avg. daily (as of March 12, 2009) |
| Opened | 2006 |
| Closed | March 2015 |
| Managed by | Management & Training Corporation |
Willacy County Correctional Center is a closed detention center located on the east side of Route 77, at the edge of Raymondville City, Willacy County, Texas, United States.[1][2][3]
The facility was within the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Prisons, and was managed by the contractor Management & Training Corporation.
It was the largest immigrant detention facility in the United States,[4][5] but subsequently was used as a prison for repeat offenders who had been captured while crossing the border illegally".[6]
The facility was the subject of numerous media reports and incidents related to illegal conduct of personnel.
After a riot and fire on February 20, 2015 destroyed much of the facility, rendering it uninhabitable, 2,800 federal Bureau of Prisons inmates were removed and the facility was closed. In March 2015, Standard and Poors downgraded the prison bonds to "junk" status. At the time of the closing, the bond debt balance was about $128 million, and the annual payments due for the bond debt were about $8 million a year.[7]
This facility is adjacent to two other private prisons: the Willacy County Regional Detention Center, operated by the Management and Training Corporation housing federal prisoners for the U.S. Marshal Service, and the Willacy County State Jail, operated by the Corrections Corporation of America under contract with the state of Texas.[7]
- ^ Willacy County Correctional Center ice.gov
- ^ Willacy County Correctional Center [dead link]
- ^ Willacy County Correctional Center [dead link]
- ^ "Is There a Detention Center Near You?". BORDC. 2010-06-14. Retrieved 2011-10-27.
- ^ "ICE will relocate crowded detention center - Houston Chronicle". Chron.com. 2011-06-09. Retrieved 2011-10-27.
- ^ at 9pm. "Lost in Detention | FRONTLINE". PBS. Retrieved 2011-10-27.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ a b "A South Texas Prison Riot Puts a Town on the Brink". The Texas Observer. 2015-03-26. Retrieved 2021-11-26.