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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 · Contract detention facility

Montgomery ICE Processing Center

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

01

What ICE publishes

FY2026 average daily population
1,217.5

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
331.7

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
16.5 days
Guaranteed minimum
750

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

Last inspection end
April 30, 2026
Last final rating
Pass

ICE workbook data pull, 2026-07-20

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

Montgomery ICE Processing Center at 806 Hilbig Rd in Conroe, Texas is printed in ICE's fiscal 2026 workbook as a contract detention facility in the Houston area of responsibility, with an average daily population of 1,217.5 against a printed guaranteed minimum of 750, an average length of stay of 16.5 days, and an Office of Detention Oversight inspection ending April 30, 2026 under PBNDS 2011 - 2016 Revisions marked Pass. A named death record in this project's human-cost dataset publishes the facility label Montgomery ICE Processing Center with an unresolved facility match. The contract, its holder, any amount, ownership and operating responsibility are not established here, and no record for the separate Joe Corley facility on the same road is carried across.

Partial dossier · Last reviewed August 21, 2026

Published as partial. Identity, separation from the Joe Corley facility, the workbook snapshot, the inspection metadata and the reviewed source's named death record are established. The contract, its holder and terms, any amount, ownership, operating responsibility, the inspection findings and any official cause of death are not.

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

    04

    Facility

    • Montgomery ICE Processing Center

    05

    Findings

    • 2 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 separate facilities sit on Hilbig Road in Conroe

    Montgomery ICE Processing Center is the workbook row at 806 Hilbig Rd. The Joe Corley Detention Facility, carried as its own dossier with its own ownership, agreement and history, is at 500 Hilbig Road. A shared road, city and county name does not make them one facility, and no ownership statement, agreement, figure or death record is carried between them.

    MONTGOMERY ICE PROCESSING CENTER
    806 HILBIG RD, CONROE, TX 77301
    Separate facility
    Joe Corley Detention Facility, 500 Hilbig Road, Conroe
    Printed type
    CDF (contract detention facility)

    Locator · ICE FY2026 workbook row; ICE detention-facility directory entry

    What this does not establish

    That the two facilities share an owner, an operator, a contract, a population or an inspection result.

    View the separate ICE program row: Joe Corley Detention Facility, 500 Hilbig Road, Conroe

    Harm records indexed here (observed / attributed)
    0 / 1

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

    Inspection and oversight records
    1
    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

    • Federal agencyU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

      No effective period printed in the indexed record

      ICE lists the facility in its own detention-management workbook and awards the orders indexed here.

      What this does not establish

      Agency custody does not establish who owns or operates the physical facility.

    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
    Dec 05, 2025Observed and attributed harmA named death record publishes this facility label with an unresolved matchThis project's human-cost dataset carries a named record for Pete Sumalo Montejo, 72, who the reviewed medical review records as having died on December 5, 2025 at Valley Baptist Medical Center in Texas after 284 days in custody, with the custodial facility label published as Montgomery ICE Processing Center. The reviewed source is a Human Rights Watch and Physicians for Human Rights medical review, which attributes a suspected cause of cardiac arrest in the setting of multiple chronic comorbidities and mentions complications of severe burns with timing and contribution unclear. The dataset's facility match status for the record is named-unmatched.Human Rights Watch / Physicians for Human RightsAttributed finding
    Apr 30, 2026Inspections and oversightOffice of Detention Oversight inspection ended April 30, 2026, marked PassICE's fiscal 2026 workbook records an Office of Detention Oversight inspection of this facility ending April 30, 2026 under the PBNDS 2011 - 2016 Revisions standard, with a final rating of Pass. The report is not indexed by this project, and Pass is ICE's own summary label rather than a description of conditions.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 Jul 20, 2026Population and capacityContracted 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 EnforcementObserved / verified
    As of Jul 20, 2026Population and capacityThe reported average of 1,217.5 sits well above the printed guaranteed minimum of 750ICE's fiscal 2026 workbook prints a guaranteed minimum of 750 for this facility and reports an average daily population of 1,217.5, with a mandatory average of 754.9 and a criminal-conviction average of 331.7. All are separate printed fields on one row, and the workbook prints no price for any of them.U.S. Immigration and Customs EnforcementObserved / 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.

    April 30, 2026 · Inspections and oversightObserved / verified

    Office of Detention Oversight inspection ended April 30, 2026, marked Pass

    ICE's fiscal 2026 workbook records an Office of Detention Oversight inspection of this facility ending April 30, 2026 under the PBNDS 2011 - 2016 Revisions standard, with a final rating of Pass. The report is not indexed by this project, and Pass is ICE's own summary label rather than a description of conditions.

    Locator
    ICE FY2026 workbook row: MONTGOMERY ICE PROCESSING CENTER
    Linked to this facility by
    The workbook row is this facility's own row, matched on printed name and the 806 Hilbig Rd address.

    What this does not establish

    Any finding, deficiency, correction or condition, any relationship to the December 2025 death record below, and nothing about the Joe Corley facility's separate inspection history.

    E

    Harm recorded in the sources indexed here

    December 5, 2025 · Observed and attributed harmAttributed finding

    A named death record publishes this facility label with an unresolved match

    This project's human-cost dataset carries a named record for Pete Sumalo Montejo, 72, who the reviewed medical review records as having died on December 5, 2025 at Valley Baptist Medical Center in Texas after 284 days in custody, with the custodial facility label published as Montgomery ICE Processing Center. The reviewed source is a Human Rights Watch and Physicians for Human Rights medical review, which attributes a suspected cause of cardiac arrest in the setting of multiple chronic comorbidities and mentions complications of severe burns with timing and contribution unclear. The dataset's facility match status for the record is named-unmatched.

    Locator
    HRW/PHR 39-person medical-review table: Pete Sumalo Montejo
    Linked to this facility by
    The reviewed source publishes the custodial facility label 'Montgomery ICE Processing Center', which is the printed name of this workbook row. The dataset itself holds the match unresolved and is not changed by this dossier.

    What this does not establish

    An official cause of death, a verified dataset-level facility match, a complete clinical or custodial chronology, or that detention, this facility, any operator, any contractor or the agency caused the death, could have prevented it, or was negligent. The suspected cause is the reviewed source's attributed finding, not a determination by this project.

    F

    What this dossier does and does not establish

    Establishes

    • The facility's identity, address and presence in ICE's fiscal 2026 detention workbook as a contract detention facility row in the Houston area of responsibility, distinct from the Joe Corley facility on the same road.
    • The printed population, criminal-conviction, mandatory, length-of-stay and guaranteed-minimum figures, and the April 30, 2026 inspection type, standard and rating.
    • That a reviewed medical review publishes a named December 5, 2025 death with this facility's printed name as the custodial label, held in the dataset as an unresolved match.

    What this does not establish

    • Any contract, contract holder, per diem, obligation or payment for this facility.
    • Who owns the property or who operates it.
    • An official cause of death, preventability, negligence, or responsibility of the facility, any operator or the agency.
    • Any inspection finding, deficiency or corrective action.

    Reviewed name matches

    • MONTGOMERY ICE PROCESSING CENTER — The name ICE prints on the fiscal 2026 workbook row for 806 Hilbig Rd, Conroe, Texas. It is never applied to the Joe Corley Detention Facility at 500 Hilbig Road in the same city, which is carried as its own dossier.
    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 contract, award or payment record reviewed

      Searched — nothing released

      ICE types this row as a contract detention facility, but no award record, contract document, modification, per-diem schedule or payment naming 806 Hilbig Rd has been obtained. No money record and no amount appears on this dossier. Locator: ICE FY2026 workbook row: MONTGOMERY ICE PROCESSING CENTER, type CDF.

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

      What this does not establish

      That no contract or payment exists, and nothing is carried over from the Joe Corley agreement records held elsewhere on this branch.

    2. No owner or operator source reviewed

      Searched — nothing released

      No company disclosure, deed, lease, agency statement or oversight report establishing who owns or operates this facility was reviewed. The ownership and management statements held on this branch describe the Joe Corley facility at 500 Hilbig Road and are not read onto this row. Locator: ICE detention-facility directory entry; ICE FY2026 workbook row.

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

      What this does not establish

      That the company operating the neighbouring facility does or does not run this one. The question is open.

    3. The named death record is not machine-joined to this facility

      Searched — nothing released

      The human-cost dataset carries the December 5, 2025 death with the facility label Montgomery ICE Processing Center and a match status of named-unmatched. The relationship is stated here in prose from the reviewed source's own label and is deliberately not written into the death dataset, which continues to record the match as unresolved. No death review, medical examiner record or agency death notice for this person was reviewed. Locator: Human-cost record pete-sumalo-montejo-2025.

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

      What this does not establish

      A verified dataset-level identity match, an official cause of death, a custodial chronology, or that this is the only death associated with this facility.

    4. No report text indexed for the April 2026 inspection

      Searched — nothing released

      The workbook prints the inspection type, end date, standard and rating. The report was not obtained, so no finding, deficiency, recommendation or corrective-action status is published, and nothing connects the inspection to the December 2025 death record. Locator: ICE FY2026 workbook inspection fields.

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

      What this does not establish

      That the inspection cited no deficiencies, that conditions were adequate, or that it examined the death at all.

    5. Which contract covers detention at 806 Hilbig Rd, who holds it, and on what terms?

      Open — no search recorded

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

    6. Who owns and who operates this facility?

      Open — no search recorded

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

    7. Is an official cause of death recorded for the December 2025 death in a death review or medical examiner record?

      Open — no search recorded

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

    8. What did the April 2026 Office of Detention Oversight inspection find?

      Open — no search recorded

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

    H

    Dossier sources

    05

    Award and harm sources