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
156.5
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
38.2 days
Guaranteed minimum
600
A population level a contract treats as guaranteed. The workbook prints the number, not the price.
No award record in this dataset names this facility. ICE and its contractors may hold awards covering it that this project has not yet indexed.
A
Accountability dossier
A high-population Raymondville DIGSA with a documented MTC role, a current ICE agreement index, secondary reports of ODO deficiencies, an older medical-review record, and a federal criminal case involving compromised detainee rosters.
Partial dossier · Last reviewed August 22, 2026
Strong identity, current population, MTC role, agreement-index, and historical accountability evidence. Ownership, local counterparty, contract economics, detailed inspection findings, and current medical-responsibility records remain unresolved.
Evidence chain · every edge labelled by what the record establishes
01
Public money
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — appropriated detention funding
02
Award
Not established in sources currently indexed
03
Contractor / operator
Management & Training Corporation — operator
04
Facility
El Valle Detention Facility
05
Findings
6 published inspection, litigation, and harm records
public money → award · Not established
No federal award record currently indexed in this dataset names this facility.
What this does not establish
The award record does not establish how much has been paid out, nor that the appropriation was passed for this facility specifically.
Identity caution — rows kept separate
Do not merge nearby or historical Willacy facilities
Keep El Valle separate from the former Willacy County Correctional Center, Willacy County Regional Detention Center, Willacy County State Jail, and Port Isabel Detention Center unless a reviewed source establishes a time-bounded site relationship.
El Valle address
1800 Industrial Drive, Raymondville, TX 78580
Workbook name
EL VALLE DETENTION FACILITY
What this does not establish
Shared geography, staff history, or county naming does not make separate facilities one identity.
The NLRB establishes MTC's operational employment and ICE-contract role in 2023; 2026 secondary reporting identifies MTC as currently overseeing the facility.
What this does not establish
The reviewed sources do not include the executed current operating agreement or establish that every contractual duty remained unchanged.
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.
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Money and award actions
Population and capacity
No record indexed in this lane
Inspections and oversight
Litigation and corrective action
Observed and attributed harm
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.
Date
Lane
Record
Status
Apr 28, 2021
Observed and attributed harm
ACLU attributed hunger-strike and sanitation concernsThe ACLU reported a hunger strike seeking cleaning supplies and soap and cited more than 213 COVID-19 cases.ACLU of Texas
Allegation
May 15, 2023
Litigation and corrective action
NLRB record places MTC detention officers at El Valle under an ICE contractThe official labor case identifies MTC as the employer of detention officers working at 1800 Industrial Drive under MTC's ICE contract.National Labor Relations Board
Observed / verified
Apr 10, 2024
Money and award actions
ICE indexes agreement action 70CDCR23DIG000007 P00001The ICE FOIA library identifies an El Valle Detention Facility IGSA action for Raymondville.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Secondary reporting describes three ODO deficienciesCALÓ News reported three deficiencies related to detainee property and monitoring.CALÓ News
Attributed finding
As of Jul 09, 2026
Population and capacity
FY2026 workbook reports ADP 867.8 and a printed minimum of 600ICE records El Valle as a Raymondville DIGSA holding women and men, with average length of stay 38.2 days.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Observed / verified
As of Jun 25, 2024
Observed and attributed harm
Medical reviewers attributed an ambulance-call delay to role confusionThe Deadly Failures report says confusion over who was responsible for calling an ambulance delayed the response for Elba Maria Centeno Briones after her oxygen level dropped dangerously low.American Oversight / ACLU / Physicians for Human Rights
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.
As of August 22, 2026 · Litigation and corrective actionObserved / verified
Federal enforcement records tie El Valle detainee rosters to a bribery scheme
Official summaries state that rosters containing names, dates of birth, countries of origin, and A-numbers came from El Valle and Port Isabel and were used to solicit legal clients.
Procedural status
federal criminal case
Linked to this facility by
The cited source explicitly names the facility, exact address, or a reviewed institutional identifier.
What this does not establish
The records establish individual criminal conduct and compromised detainee information, not management authorization, operator policy, or a continuing facility-wide practice.
As of June 25, 2024 · Observed and attributed harmAttributed finding
Medical reviewers attributed an ambulance-call delay to role confusion
The Deadly Failures report says confusion over who was responsible for calling an ambulance delayed the response for Elba Maria Centeno Briones after her oxygen level dropped dangerously low.
Linked to this facility by
The cited source explicitly names the facility, exact address, or a reviewed institutional identifier.
What this does not establish
This is a source-attributed medical review. It does not independently adjudicate negligence, legal liability, operator responsibility, or the precise causal contribution of each institution.
One El Valle facility identity at 1800 Industrial Drive.
MTC's operational/employment role at least by 2023 and a reported current role in 2026.
An ICE DIGSA action identifier and current workbook population record.
Attributed historical conditions, medical-review, and detainee-data compromise records.
What this does not establish
Current property owner or local IGSA signatory.
Current contract price, payments, or facility-specific federal outlays.
That Pass means no deficiencies or safe conditions.
That the operator authorized the bribery scheme.
That historical allegations or deficiencies persisted through the packet cutoff.
Reviewed name matches
El Valle Detention Center — Secondary sources use this name; the exact 1800 Industrial Drive address aligns it to the workbook facility.
El Valle Detention Facility — Exact ICE workbook and FOIA-index name.
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.
Executed IGSA and modifications
Searched — nothing released
Obtain 70CDCR23DIG000007 and all current modifications, rates, guarantees, payment terms, and local signatory.
Collection searched · August 22, 2026 · not an event date
What this does not establish
The unresolved record is not evidence that the agreement, relationship, payment, event, or condition does not exist.