ICE's own fiscal-year average, not a bed count and not a point-in-time headcount.
Average of that population convicted or with pending charges
368
ICE's classification, reproduced as published. This is an ICE administrative classification. Pending charges are not convictions, and this field is not population-level crime-rate evidence.
Average length of stay
56.9 days
Guaranteed minimum
2,560
A population level a contract treats as guaranteed. The workbook prints the number, not the price.
70CDCR25FR0000122 · Recorded as of August 20, 2026
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Contract floor, population and ownership
A difference between a printed contract floor and a reported population is a difference in beds. It becomes money only where an auditor published a figure.
Contract floor and populationICE workbook data pull, 2026-07-20
More than 10% below the printed floor. A printed guaranteed minimum is a contract floor recorded in ICE's workbook. It is not the facility's physical or licensed capacity, and on its own it establishes no payment.
These four transactions changed who owns the real property. They did not by themselves end private management: CoreCivic says it expects to continue managing each site under ICE contracts, with terms potentially modified for the ownership change. No reviewed source establishes a leaseback, an appraisal, a fair-value opinion, or overpayment. Purchase prices are never added to federal award values, obligations, outlays, company revenue, lobbying totals, or political-transaction totals.
California's attorney general wrote to DHS in December 2025 about this facility specifically; the office's earlier statewide review is recorded as context, not as a finding about this site. No DHS inspector general report, ICE inspection report, or ICE death disclosure naming this facility has been located, which is a gap in the public record rather than a finding about the facility.
Partial dossier · Last reviewed August 20, 2026
Published as partial: the federal oversight and litigation record is represented only by state records and one secondary news report. The dossier will stay partial until the docket is indexed.
Evidence chain · every edge labelled by what the record establishes
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Public money
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — appropriated detention funding
Money, population, inspections, litigation and harm on one calendar
The facility record beside the money record
Lanes are shown side by side because they share a facility and a calendar, not a cause. Chronological proximity does not establish causation.
Only dated events are plotted. Records carrying an as-of or dataset-cutoff date, such as ICE’s fiscal-year population aggregates, are listed in the table instead, because a data-pull date is not the date something happened.
202520262027
Money and award actions
Population and capacity
No record indexed in this lane
Inspections and oversight
No record indexed in this lane
Litigation and corrective action
Observed and attributed harm
No record indexed in this lane
Select or focus a marker to read the underlying record. Every marker below is also listed in the table.
Facility evidence records by date, lane, evidence status and source.
Reported federal order on medical care and appointment of a monitorThe Los Angeles Times reported in February 2026 that a federal judge ordered the government to provide constitutionally adequate healthcare at this facility and appointed an independent monitor. This project has not yet indexed the underlying order or docket.Los Angeles Times
Fiscal 2026 average daily populationICE reports this facility's average daily population for fiscal 2026 in its detention-management workbook. It is a fiscal-year average, not a bed count and not a headcount on any given day.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Observed / verified
As of Jul 20, 2026
Population and capacity
Fiscal 2026 average length of stayICE reports the average number of days people spent in custody at this facility in fiscal 2026.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Observed / verified
As of Jul 20, 2026
Population and capacity
Contracted guaranteed minimumICE's workbook prints a guaranteed minimum population level for this facility. The workbook prints the number; it does not print the price attached to it.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Observed / verified
D
Inspections, findings and litigation
An ICE compliance rating records the agency's own determination against its detention standards on the inspection dates. It does not establish that no harm or deficiency occurred.
December 19, 2025 · Litigation and corrective actionAttributed finding
California attorney general writes to DHS about this facility
The state attorney general wrote to DHS in December 2025 raising concerns about conditions at the California City facility, based on his office's monitoring and complaints received.
Locator
Letter to DHS dated December 19, 2025
Procedural status
Letter sent; no published DHS response indexed here
Linked to this facility by
The letter names the California City detention facility.
What this does not establish
The letter records the state's assessment and the complaints it received. It is not an adjudication and establishes no federal finding.
February 11, 2026 · Litigation and corrective actionAttributed finding
Reported federal order on medical care and appointment of a monitor
The Los Angeles Times reported in February 2026 that a federal judge ordered the government to provide constitutionally adequate healthcare at this facility and appointed an independent monitor. This project has not yet indexed the underlying order or docket.
Locator
Newspaper report, February 11, 2026
Procedural status
Reported as ordered; underlying docket not yet indexed
Linked to this facility by
The report names the California City facility.
What this does not establish
Secondary reporting is not the order. Until the docket is indexed, the terms, scope and current status of any order are not established here.
California's attorney general wrote to DHS about this facility in December 2025, citing his office's monitoring and complaints received.
ICE reports a fiscal 2026 average daily population and average length of stay for this facility.
A CoreCivic order names this facility as a place of performance, with a funded period ending August 31, 2026.
What this does not establish
That a federal court order on medical care exists in the terms reported. Only secondary reporting is indexed so far.
That any award action caused any condition described by the state.
That the absence of a DHS inspector general report or an ICE inspection report means none exists or that no deficiency has been found.
Reviewed name matches
California City Detention Facility — The California Attorney General's December 2025 letter to DHS uses this name for the same California City site the ICE workbook records.
G
Open research questions
These are the gaps the reviewed record set names. A question listed here is unanswered, not answered in the facility's favour, and this list does not claim to cover everything unknown about the facility.
No civil rights memorandum found in the published DHS collection
Searched — nothing released
On the search date, the DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties published collection contained no investigation or recommendation memorandum naming this facility. This is a search result, not an event, so it is not plotted on the timeline and not counted as legal evidence. Locator: CRCL recommendation and investigation memoranda collection.
Collection searched · August 20, 2026 · not an event date
What this does not establish
Absence from the published collection does not establish that no complaint was filed, investigated, or substantiated. CRCL does not publish every memorandum.
Statewide review not attached: the April 2025 report does not name this facility for the review period
Searched — nothing released
California's Department of Justice publishes a statutory review of immigration detention in the state. The April 2025 edition covers the review period before this facility began holding people for ICE, and this project has not established that it discusses California City specifically. It is therefore recorded as state-level context and is not attached to this facility as a finding. Locator: California DOJ immigration detention review, 2025.
Collection searched · August 20, 2026 · not an event date
What this does not establish
That the statewide review made, or failed to make, any finding about this facility. A later edition naming the facility would be indexed as a facility-specific record.
These are company-wide records. They are not allocated to this facility and do not establish that political activity caused any award or facility decision.