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
177.4
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
54.5 days
Guaranteed minimum
750
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 direct ICE contract facility with a verified CoreCivic operational role, unresolved property-title history, current inspection metadata, PREA records, and two congressional oversight accounts.
Partial dossier · Last reviewed August 22, 2026
Strong identity, operator, direct-contract index, state project, PREA, population, and oversight evidence. Property title, current contract economics, detailed ODO findings, and requested operational 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
CoreCivic, Inc. — operator
04
Facility
Houston Contract Detention Facility
05
Findings
7 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 Houston-area detention facilities
Keep Houston CDF separate from Harris County Jail, Montgomery ICE Processing Center, Joe Corley Processing Center, and other Houston-region sites.
Exact address
15850 Export Plaza Drive, Houston, TX 77032
What this does not establish
Shared metro area, agency use, or contractor brand does not create one facility identity.
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.
20172018201920202021202220232024202520262027
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
2017
Litigation and corrective action
A historical TDLR project prints the City of Houston as owner-as-filedThe older project registration uses the same facility address and names the City of Houston in its owner field.Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation
ICE indexes direct contract 70CDCR20D00000014 P00013The FOIA library identifies the Houston Contract Detention Facility direct contract action.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Observed / verified
Apr 09, 2024
Inspections and oversight
CoreCivic posts an April 2024 PREA auditThe company page lists an audit conducted April 9–11, 2024 and an older July 2017 audit.CoreCivic
Attributed finding
May 2025
Litigation and corrective action
Congressional release records limits on document access during a visitRep. Sylvia Garcia said the facility declined to provide copies of population, medical-visit, and recent inspection records without consulting ICE.Office of Rep. Pramila Jayapal
Attributed finding
Mar 17, 2026
Observed and attributed harm
Congressman attributed prolonged room confinement and a large non-conviction populationRep. Christian Menefee's office said the facility held around 750 people, that people spent up to 20 hours per day in one room, and that roughly 40 percent lacked a criminal conviction.Office of Rep. Christian Menefee
FY2026 workbook reports ADP 832 and a printed minimum of 750ICE records a direct CDF holding women and men with average length of stay 54.5 days.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Observed / verified
As of Aug 22, 2026
Litigation and corrective action
CoreCivic publishes the current facility at the workbook addressThe current company page identifies Houston Processing Center at 15850 Export Plaza Drive and publishes PREA information.CoreCivic
Attributed finding
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.
As of August 22, 2026 · Litigation and corrective actionAttributed finding
CoreCivic publishes the current facility at the workbook address
The current company page identifies Houston Processing Center at 15850 Export Plaza Drive and publishes PREA information.
Linked to this facility by
The cited source explicitly names the facility, exact address, or a reviewed institutional identifier.
What this does not establish
Company publication corroborates the facility relationship; it is not independent property-title evidence or an ICE inspection.
March 17, 2026 · Observed and attributed harmAttributed finding
Congressman attributed prolonged room confinement and a large non-conviction population
Rep. Christian Menefee's office said the facility held around 750 people, that people spent up to 20 hours per day in one room, and that roughly 40 percent lacked a criminal conviction.
Procedural status
congressional oversight visit
Linked to this facility by
The cited source explicitly names the facility, exact address, or a reviewed institutional identifier.
What this does not establish
These are reported observations and estimates from a congressional visit, not an independent inspection, full census, or finding that every person experienced the same condition.
One facility identity at 15850 Export Plaza Drive.
CoreCivic's current operational relationship and ICE's direct contract identifier.
A time-bounded owner-as-filed source conflict.
Current population and inspection metadata.
Attributed congressional oversight observations and document-access account.
What this does not establish
Current property owner or title transfer history.
Current contract value, payment, or profit.
That PREA audit scope equals overall detention-standard compliance.
That Pass means no deficiencies.
That every person experienced the conditions attributed by the congressman.
Reviewed name matches
Houston Processing Center — CoreCivic's current facility page uses this name at the exact workbook address.
HPC — TDLR project shorthand at the exact address; use only as a subordinate abbreviation, never as the public canonical 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.
Owner-as-filed records conflict across time
Searched — nothing released
The 2017 project names the City of Houston while two 2020 projects name CoreCivic. The cited source explicitly names the facility, exact address, or a reviewed institutional identifier.
Collection searched · August 22, 2026 · not an event date
What this does not establish
The packet does not infer a transfer, lease, sale, title chain, or current owner from accessibility filings.
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.