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Accountability dossier · partial

A researched record, still incomplete: the sections below carry what has been found and published so far, and say where work remains.

CONROE, TX · Intergovernmental service agreement

Joe Corley Processing Center

ICE's published operating figures for this facility, with the researched record set out below.

Open press frame — Facility record
01

What ICE publishes

FY2026 average daily population
861.9

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
137.6

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
54.1 days
Guaranteed minimum
Not established

A population level a contract treats as guaranteed. The workbook prints the number, not the price.

Last inspection end
December 19, 2024
Last final rating
Pass

ICE workbook data pull, 2026-07-20

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
02

Money this project traces here

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

Joe Corley began this documented era as a Montgomery County property that GEO Group says it had managed since 2008 under a county contract. GEO announced it bought the facility from the county on June 7, 2013 for approximately $65 million and expected roughly $27 million in annual revenue from it. ICE still publishes a Montgomery County intergovernmental agreement for the site, and GEO's facility page lists both ICE and the U.S. Marshals Service as clients. ICE's fiscal 2026 workbook reports an average daily population of 861.9 and prints no guaranteed minimum. The purchase price, the company revenue forecast and the federal agreement are held apart here: none is federal spending measured against another, and no total is computed across them.

Partial dossier · Last reviewed August 21, 2026

Published as partial, with unusually strong ownership and acquisition coverage. Identity, the county-to-company ownership sequence, the operating relationship from 2008, the private purchase price, the company revenue forecast, the federal agreement identity, both federal customers, the inspection history and current population are established. The agreement's financial terms, the title-holding entity, the ICE and Marshals Service allocation, the capacity change and every inspection finding are not.

Evidence chain · every edge labelled by what the record establishes

01

Public money

  • U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — appropriated detention funding
  • U.S. Marshals Service — appropriated detention funding

02

Award

  • Not established in sources currently indexed

03

Contractor / operator

  • Montgomery County, Texas — owner
  • The GEO Group, Inc. — owner
  • The GEO Group, Inc. — operator

04

Facility

  • Joe Corley Processing Center

05

Findings

  • 4 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

Two ICE facilities sit on Hilbig Road in Conroe and are never merged

ICE prints a separate workbook row for the Montgomery ICE Processing Center at 806 Hilbig Road in the same city. This dossier covers only 500 Hilbig Road. Shared road, city, area of responsibility and federal customers do not make one facility, and no figure from either row is carried across to the other.

This dossier
JOE CORLEY PROCESSING CTR, 500 HILBIG RD, CONROE, TX 77301
Separate ICE workbook row
MONTGOMERY ICE PROCESSING CENTER, 806 HILBIG RD, CONROE, TX

Locator · FY2026 workbook rows; ICE detention-facility directory

What this does not establish

A shared operator, shared contract, shared population or any relationship between the two facilities beyond their addresses.

View the separate ICE program row: Montgomery ICE Processing Center, 806 Hilbig Road

U.S. Immigration and Customs EnforcementU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Harm records indexed here (observed / attributed)
0 / 0

Observed means an official record documents it. Attributed means a named source reached the finding. The two are never summed.

Inspection and oversight records
4
Legal instrument, litigation and complaint records
0

These are counts of records indexed by this project, not counts of everything that happened. They are never summed into a score.

B

Who is involved, and on what basis

  • OwnerMontgomery County, Texas

    No effective period printed in the indexed record

    GEO's acquisition announcement states that it purchased the Joe Corley facility from Montgomery County, Texas, and that the transaction closed on June 7, 2013.

    What this does not establish

    The construction date, the county's financing history, the original title date, or whether a county affiliate rather than the county itself held title.

    The GEO Group, Inc.
  • OwnerThe GEO Group, Inc.

    June 7, 2013 — no end date printed

    GEO announced the completed purchase of the facility from Montgomery County effective June 7, 2013, and a later SEC mortgaged-properties schedule lists the Joe Corley property among the company's own properties.

    What this does not establish

    Which subsidiary currently holds the deed, the lien balance, the financing terms, or that the publicly traded parent holds title directly.

    The GEO Group, Inc.U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission / The GEO Group, Inc.
  • OperatorThe GEO Group, Inc.

    January 1, 2008 — no end date printed

    GEO's acquisition announcement states the company had managed the center since 2008 under a contract with Montgomery County, and GEO's current facility page presents the center as a company location serving ICE and the U.S. Marshals Service. The start is carried at year certainty: the sources print a year, not a day.

    What this does not establish

    An exact 2008 start date, the ownership start date, every subcontracted service, or uninterrupted operation across every intervening contract period.

    The GEO Group, Inc.The GEO Group, Inc.
  • Intergovernmental counterpartyMontgomery County, Texas

    No effective period printed in the indexed record

    ICE's FOIA library identifies 70CDCR18DIG000013 P00036 as the Joe Corley Detention (Montgomery County) intergovernmental service agreement, and GEO's announcement describes the county contract chain.

    What this does not establish

    County ownership after June 2013, current payment terms, any county fee, or county involvement in day-to-day operation.

    U.S. Immigration and Customs EnforcementThe GEO Group, Inc.
  • Federal agencyU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

    No effective period printed in the indexed record

    ICE prints the facility in its fiscal 2026 workbook, publishes it in its detention-facility directory, indexes inspections for the site, and indexes the Montgomery County agreement under the facility's name.

    What this does not establish

    Any price, per diem, obligation or payment, the share of the facility ICE uses, or how beds are allocated between ICE and the U.S. Marshals Service.

    U.S. Immigration and Customs EnforcementU.S. Immigration and Customs EnforcementU.S. Immigration and Customs EnforcementU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  • Federal agencyU.S. Marshals Service

    No effective period printed in the indexed record

    GEO's current facility page lists the U.S. Marshals Service alongside ICE as a client of the center, and the 2013 acquisition announcement described both federal customers.

    What this does not establish

    The Marshals Service population, bed share, revenue share or contract terms, or that any figure printed in ICE's workbook covers Marshals Service detainees.

    The GEO Group, Inc.The GEO Group, Inc.
C

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.

Facility evidence records by date, lane, evidence status and source.
DateLaneRecordStatus
Jun 07, 2013Money and award actionsGEO bought the facility from Montgomery County for approximately $65 millionGEO Group announced on June 7, 2013 that it had closed the purchase of the 1,287-bed Joe Corley Detention Center from Montgomery County, Texas for approximately $65 million. This is a private property transaction between a company and a county. It is not a federal award, obligation, outlay or payment, and it is never added to any federal figure or to the company's own revenue forecast.The GEO Group, Inc.Observed / verified
Oct 28, 2021Inspections and oversightICE indexed four inspections and a 2017 PREA audit at the Conroe facilityICE's facility-inspection collection lists entries dated November 16, 2018 and November 15, 2019 under the Joe Corley Detention Facility name and December 18, 2020 and October 28, 2021 under the Joe Corley Processing Center name. ICE's FOIA library separately indexes a Prison Rape Elimination Act audit conducted September 19 to 21, 2017. The collection is read here for oversight history only; no report text, finding or audit result was extracted.U.S. Immigration and Customs EnforcementObserved / verified
Dec 19, 2024Inspections and oversightICE's fiscal 2026 workbook records a December 2024 ODO inspection as PassThe workbook row prints an Office of Detention Oversight inspection ending December 19, 2024 against the NDS 2019 standards with a final rating of Pass. The workbook prints the rating only; the report itself is not indexed here.U.S. Immigration and Customs EnforcementObserved / verified
As of Jul 20, 2026Population and capacityFiscal 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 EnforcementObserved / verified
As of Jul 20, 2026Population and capacityFiscal 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 EnforcementObserved / verified
As of Jun 07, 2013Money and award actionsGEO expected approximately $27 million in annual revenue after the purchaseIn the same 2013 announcement, GEO stated it expected the facility to generate approximately $27 million in annual revenue. This is a company forecast made by the company about itself. It is not a measured payment, not a federal obligation, and it is never added to the purchase price or to any agreement value.The GEO Group, Inc.Attributed finding
As of Apr 22, 2025Money and award actionsICE publishes a Montgomery County IGSA for the Conroe facilityICE's FOIA library indexes intergovernmental service agreement 70CDCR18DIG000013, modification P00036, as the Joe Corley Detention (Montgomery County) agreement in Conroe, Texas. The entry establishes the instrument's identity and the county relationship only. No amount is generated from an agreement title.U.S. Immigration and Customs EnforcementObserved / verified
As of Aug 21, 2026Population and capacityCompany disclosures report 1,287 beds in 2013 and 1,517 capacity nowGEO's 2013 acquisition announcement described a 1,287-bed facility. GEO's current facility page reports a capacity of 1,517. Both are company-reported figures at different dates. The difference is printed here as a change in what the company reports, not as a documented construction or expansion project: no permit, contract or agency record explaining the change is indexed.The GEO Group, Inc.The GEO Group, Inc.Observed / verified
As of Aug 21, 2026Inspections and oversightThe operating company describes the services it says it providesGEO's facility page states that the center provides medical care, food service, laundry, general living services, and visitation and other facility amenities. This records what the operating company says about its own facility. It is not an inspection, and it does not establish the quality, timeliness or adequacy of any service.The GEO Group, Inc.Attributed finding
As of Aug 21, 2026Inspections and oversightCompany-reported accreditation scores are not ICE findingsGEO reports an American Correctional Association score of 98.8 percent, accreditation by the National Commission on Correctional Health Care, and a 2024 PREA recertification. These are the company's statements about accrediting processes the company participates in. They are carried apart from ICE's inspection record, are never combined with the workbook rating, and establish no absence of deficiencies.The GEO Group, Inc.The GEO Group, Inc.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 21, 2026 · Inspections and oversightAttributed finding

The operating company describes the services it says it provides

GEO's facility page states that the center provides medical care, food service, laundry, general living services, and visitation and other facility amenities. This records what the operating company says about its own facility. It is not an inspection, and it does not establish the quality, timeliness or adequacy of any service.

Locator
Company facility page, services section
Linked to this facility by
The page names this facility and lists its stated services.

What this does not establish

Service quality, adequacy or timeliness, who directly employs the staff performing each service, or that any listed service was available to any individual.

The GEO Group, Inc.
As of August 21, 2026 · Inspections and oversightAttributed finding

Company-reported accreditation scores are not ICE findings

GEO reports an American Correctional Association score of 98.8 percent, accreditation by the National Commission on Correctional Health Care, and a 2024 PREA recertification. These are the company's statements about accrediting processes the company participates in. They are carried apart from ICE's inspection record, are never combined with the workbook rating, and establish no absence of deficiencies.

Locator
Company standards and PREA certification page
Linked to this facility by
The company page presents these claims for its facilities including this center.

What this does not establish

An ICE finding, an independent audit result, zero deficiencies, or that an accreditation score is comparable to an ICE inspection rating.

The GEO Group, Inc.The GEO Group, Inc.
October 28, 2021 · Inspections and oversightObserved / verified

ICE indexed four inspections and a 2017 PREA audit at the Conroe facility

ICE's facility-inspection collection lists entries dated November 16, 2018 and November 15, 2019 under the Joe Corley Detention Facility name and December 18, 2020 and October 28, 2021 under the Joe Corley Processing Center name. ICE's FOIA library separately indexes a Prison Rape Elimination Act audit conducted September 19 to 21, 2017. The collection is read here for oversight history only; no report text, finding or audit result was extracted.

Locator
ICE facility-inspection collection; PREA audit index
Linked to this facility by
Each indexed entry prints a reviewed name for the same 500 Hilbig Road facility held in this dossier.

What this does not establish

Any finding, deficiency, rating, audit outcome or corrective action. An index entry records that an inspection occurred, not what it concluded.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
December 19, 2024 · Inspections and oversightObserved / verified

ICE's fiscal 2026 workbook records a December 2024 ODO inspection as Pass

The workbook row prints an Office of Detention Oversight inspection ending December 19, 2024 against the NDS 2019 standards with a final rating of Pass. The workbook prints the rating only; the report itself is not indexed here.

Locator
Joe Corley workbook row
Linked to this facility by
Reviewed alias join between the ICE workbook row and this facility, matched on printed name, address and city.

What this does not establish

The contents of the unindexed report, that no deficiencies were cited, or that company accreditation claims and ICE inspection findings are equivalent.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
E2

Money the companies disclose about this facility

These are company-reported or company-forecast figures disclosed by the businesses involved. They are not federal awards, obligations, outlays or payments, and they are never added together: they cover different companies, different periods, and mix forecasts with reported revenue.

As of June 7, 2013 · Money and award actionsAttributed finding

GEO expected approximately $27 million in annual revenue after the purchase

In the same 2013 announcement, GEO stated it expected the facility to generate approximately $27 million in annual revenue. This is a company forecast made by the company about itself. It is not a measured payment, not a federal obligation, and it is never added to the purchase price or to any agreement value.

Locator
GEO acquisition announcement
Linked to this facility by
The company tied the forecast explicitly to the Joe Corley facility.

What this does not establish

Actual revenue, any federal payment, profit, present revenue, or an amount attributable to ICE rather than to the U.S. Marshals Service.

The GEO Group, Inc.
F

What this dossier does and does not establish

Establishes

  • Joe Corley Processing Center, Joe Corley Detention Center and Joe Corley Detention Facility name the same 500 Hilbig Road property in Conroe, Texas.
  • GEO Group states it managed the facility under a Montgomery County contract from 2008.
  • GEO Group purchased the facility from Montgomery County on June 7, 2013 for approximately $65 million and forecast roughly $27 million in annual revenue from it.
  • ICE publishes a Montgomery County intergovernmental service agreement identity, 70CDCR18DIG000013 P00036, for the facility.
  • GEO currently identifies both ICE and the U.S. Marshals Service as clients and reports a capacity of 1,517.
  • ICE reports a fiscal 2026 average daily population of 861.9, no guaranteed minimum, and a December 2024 inspection rated Pass.

What this does not establish

  • The current agreement value, obligations, outlays, per diem, county fee, or how costs and beds are allocated between ICE and the U.S. Marshals Service.
  • That the $65 million purchase price was federal spending, or that it may be added to any federal or forecast figure.
  • That the $27 million forecast was actual or current revenue.
  • When, how or whether physical capacity changed between the 2013 and current company figures.
  • That company accreditation scores establish an absence of deficiencies or are comparable to an ICE inspection finding.
  • That every listed service is performed directly by employees of the operating company.
  • Any death, conditions violation, negligence, preventability, or causation between money, a company and any harm.

Reviewed name matches

  • Joe Corley Detention Center — Historical name used in the company's 2013 acquisition announcement and in ICE's agreement index for the same 500 Hilbig Road property in Conroe, Texas.
  • Joe Corley Detention Facility — Historical name printed in ICE's facility-inspection index for the 2018 and 2019 entries at the same 500 Hilbig Road property.
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.

  1. 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.

    DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

  2. The executed agreement and its payment pages were not parsed

    Searched — nothing released

    ICE indexes 70CDCR18DIG000013 P00036 but publishes no value, per diem, obligation or payment in the reviewed entry, and no award record in this dataset names the facility. No federal money figure is published for Joe Corley, and no allocation between ICE and the U.S. Marshals Service is computed. Locator: ICE FOIA library entry 70CDCR18DIG000013 P00036.

    Collection searched · August 21, 2026 · not an event date

    What this does not establish

    That no federal money flows to this facility. Absence of an indexed amount is a gap in this dataset, not a finding about spending.

    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

  3. No deed identifies the current title-holding entity

    Searched — nothing released

    The reviewed packet contains the company's acquisition announcement and an SEC property schedule, but no deed or county title instrument. The dossier therefore names the corporate parent as owner on the company's own statements and leaves the specific title-holding subsidiary unresolved. Locator: SEC mortgaged-properties schedule.

    Collection searched · August 21, 2026 · not an event date

    What this does not establish

    That no subsidiary holds title, or which entity appears on the recorded deed.

    U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission / The GEO Group, Inc.

  4. No record explains the change in reported capacity

    Searched — nothing released

    Company disclosures report 1,287 beds in 2013 and 1,517 capacity currently, but no permit, construction contract, county record or agency document indexed here explains when, how or whether physical capacity changed. Locator: Acquisition announcement; company facility page.

    Collection searched · August 21, 2026 · not an event date

    What this does not establish

    That an expansion occurred, that it did not occur, or what the licensed capacity is.

    The GEO Group, Inc.The GEO Group, Inc.

  5. No inspection or PREA report text was extracted

    Searched — nothing released

    The December 2024 Office of Detention Oversight report is not indexed here, the 2018 through 2021 inspection reports were not extracted, and the September 2017 PREA audit outcome was not retrieved. Locator: ICE facility-inspection collection; PREA audit index.

    Collection searched · August 21, 2026 · not an event date

    What this does not establish

    That the inspections and the audit found nothing, or that the Pass rating summarizes their contents.

    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

  6. No harm record is authorized for this facility

    Searched — nothing released

    The reviewed packet contains no death record, no substantiated conditions finding and no adjudicated allegation naming this facility. No harm record is published, and none of the ownership, acquisition or contract records is treated as evidence of harm. Locator: ICE facility-inspection collection.

    Collection searched · August 21, 2026 · not an event date

    What this does not establish

    That no harm occurred at this facility. Absence in the sources reviewed here is a limit of this dataset, not a finding.

    U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

  7. Which GEO subsidiary currently holds title to the property?

    Open — no search recorded

    Dossier last reviewed · August 21, 2026 · not an event date

  8. What are the current intergovernmental agreement, county and company service-contract terms?

    Open — no search recorded

    Dossier last reviewed · August 21, 2026 · not an event date

  9. How are costs, beds and population allocated between ICE and the U.S. Marshals Service?

    Open — no search recorded

    Dossier last reviewed · August 21, 2026 · not an event date

  10. What changed the company-reported capacity from 1,287 to 1,517?

    Open — no search recorded

    Dossier last reviewed · August 21, 2026 · not an event date

  11. What did the December 2024 Office of Detention Oversight inspection find?

    Open — no search recorded

    Dossier last reviewed · August 21, 2026 · not an event date

  12. What were the outcomes of the 2018 through 2021 inspections and the September 2017 PREA audit?

    Open — no search recorded

    Dossier last reviewed · August 21, 2026 · not an event date

H

Dossier sources

Company-level political and lobbying records

GEO Group holds owner, operator roles established here by a cited record.

Political finance and lobbying records for GEO Group

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.

05

Award and harm sources