South Louisiana Correctional Facility
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| Location | 3843 Stagg Avenue, Basile, Louisiana |
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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.
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.
References
[edit]- ^ "SOUTH LOUISIANA CORRECTIONAL CENTER". Archived from the original on 2015-02-15.
- ^ "StackPath".
- ^ "Immigrant Detainees Stage Hunger Strikes in Louisiana - NAM". news.newamericamedia.org. Archived from the original on 2009-08-10.
- ^ "Immigrant Detainees Staging Hunger Strikes to Protest Deplorable Confinement". www.truth-out.org. Archived from the original on 2014-03-20.
- ^ "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). Business Wire. 25 April 2024. Retrieved 2024-07-02.
External links
[edit]- "Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse". Syracuse University., data on immigration and people detained by law enforcement agencies
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