Otero County Prison Facility
Otero County is the owner of the facility. Clients include the state, which began sending about 300 sex offenders to the institution beginning in early 2013. Most of the facility is dedicated to housing federal prisoners of the United States Marshals Service, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons.
A 2011 ACLU report was highly critical of prison conditions in Otero County, access to legal resources, and the level of health care provided. As of December 2017, the ICE Processing Center at Otero County "landed at the center of ongoing controversy surrounding private prisons and ICE detention" when a report of the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General found that conditions undermined the rights of detainees meant to be held in civil, not punitive, custody.
In 2018, some of the detained immigrant parents affected by the Trump administration family separation policy were housed at Otero County.
References
- ^ "Guadalupe County Correctional Facility". New Mexico Corrections Department. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
- ^ Gallagher, Mike (11 February 2013). "Mass sex offender transfer planned". Albuquerque Journal. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
- ^ "Otero County Prison Facility Dedicates New Building for State's Sex Offenders". Management & Training Corporation. Archived from the original on 27 January 2015. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
- ^ "ACLU Releases Report on Immigrant Detention in Otero County". ACLU of New Mexico. Retrieved 7 August 2016.
- ^ Macaraeg, Sarah (23 December 2017). "Problems at Otero County ICE detention center found in audit". Las Cruces Sun News. Retrieved 12 September 2018.
- ^ Blitzer, Jonathon (26 June 2018). "The Government Has Decided That Hundreds of Immigrant Parents Are Ineligible to Be Reunited with Their Kids. Who Are They?". Retrieved 12 September 2018.
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