Accountability dossier
A researched record: identity and roles, money, inspection findings, litigation and harm, with every claim carrying its source.
PHILIPSBURG, PA · Dedicated intergovernmental service agreement
ICE's published operating figures for this facility, with the researched record set out below.
ICE's own fiscal-year average, not a bed count and not a point-in-time headcount.
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.
A population level a contract treats as guaranteed. The workbook prints the number, not the price.
ICE workbook data pull, 2026-07-20
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.
Oversight of this Pennsylvania facility runs through the Detention Ombudsman and the DHS civil rights office rather than the inspector general. A man died here on August 5, 2025; his brother sued for the records ten weeks later, and three members of Congress wrote to ICE in August 2026 after an unannounced visit. No award in this dataset names the facility.
Complete dossier · Last reviewed August 20, 2026
Complete: ombudsman, civil rights, ICE inspection, death and litigation records are indexed with primary sources, with each record's redactions and gaps stated. The money lane is empty because no award record in this dataset names this facility.
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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.
Observed means an official record documents it. Attributed means a named source reached the finding. The two are never summed.
These are counts of records indexed by this project, not counts of everything that happened. They are never summed into a score.
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.
No effective period printed in the indexed record
GEO's own facility page lists this processing centre and names Clearfield County and ICE as its clients.
What this does not establish
A company listing establishes the company's claim to run the site. It does not establish the contract structure between ICE, Clearfield County and the company, or the current terms.
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.
Select or focus a marker to read the underlying record. Every marker below is also listed in the table.
| Date | Lane | Record | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 17, 2022 | Inspections and oversight | Detention Ombudsman inspection reportThe DHS Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman issued a final inspection report on conditions at this facility, addressed to ICE's then-acting director.DHS Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman | Observed / verified |
| Aug 16, 2024 | Litigation and corrective action | Civil rights office memorandum following an on-site reviewThe DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties sent ICE leadership a memorandum concerning its on-site review of this facility. The publicly released copy is redacted.DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (redacted copy released by the ACLU of Pennsylvania) | Observed / verified |
| Mar 04, 2025 | Inspections and oversight | ICE compliance inspection, March 4-6, 2025ICE's Office of Detention Oversight inspected this facility over three days in March 2025.ICE Office of Detention Oversight | Observed / verified |
| Aug 05, 2025 | Observed and attributed harm | A man died in custody at this facility on August 5, 2025Chaofeng Ge, 32, died at this facility on August 5, 2025. ICE published a death notification page for the death; at retrieval the page returned unreadable content, so the date and identity here rest on the federal records complaint filed by his brother and on contemporaneous reporting.U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (copy hosted by WTAJ)WHYYU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | Attributed finding |
| Nov 12, 2025 | Litigation and corrective action | Family sues for the federal records on the August 2025 deathThe brother of the man who died filed a Freedom of Information Act suit in the Southern District of New York seeking DHS and ICE records about the death.U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (copy hosted by WTAJ) | Allegation |
| Aug 08, 2026 | Litigation and corrective action | Three members of Congress write to ICE after an unannounced visitReporting records that three Pennsylvania members of the House sent letters to ICE and DHS in early August 2026 demanding changes to procedures at this facility, following an unannounced site visit in late May 2026.USA Today Network | Attributed finding |
| As of Jul 20, 2026 | Population and capacity | 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 |
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.
The DHS Office of the Immigration Detention Ombudsman issued a final inspection report on conditions at this facility, addressed to ICE's then-acting director.
What this does not establish
Ombudsman recommendations are not binding. Nothing indexed here establishes whether ICE acted on them.
The DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties sent ICE leadership a memorandum concerning its on-site review of this facility. The publicly released copy is redacted.
What this does not establish
The redactions mean the findings, recommendations and their status are not established by the copy indexed here.
ICE's Office of Detention Oversight inspected this facility over three days in March 2025.
What this does not establish
The report text has not been retrieved, so no finding is claimed here.
The brother of the man who died filed a Freedom of Information Act suit in the Southern District of New York seeking DHS and ICE records about the death.
What this does not establish
This is a records suit. It is not a wrongful-death claim, it asserts no liability, and its allegations are not findings.
Reporting records that three Pennsylvania members of the House sent letters to ICE and DHS in early August 2026 demanding changes to procedures at this facility, following an unannounced site visit in late May 2026.
What this does not establish
The letters themselves are not indexed here, so their text, demands and any response are not established. A congressional letter is not a finding.
Chaofeng Ge, 32, died at this facility on August 5, 2025. ICE published a death notification page for the death; at retrieval the page returned unreadable content, so the date and identity here rest on the federal records complaint filed by his brother and on contemporaneous reporting.
What this does not establish
No cause or manner of death is established here. Counsel's account, reported in the press, describes how the body was found; that account is an allegation and is not adopted as fact by this dossier. Nothing here attributes the death to the facility, the operator or any care decision.
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.
On the search date, no inspector general inspection or audit report specific to this facility was located. Federal oversight of this site in the record indexed here runs through the Detention Ombudsman and the civil rights office instead. Locator: DHS OIG report library.
Collection searched · August 20, 2026 · not an event date
What this does not establish
That the inspector general has never examined this facility. Absence in a search is not evidence of absence.
No state agency or county inspection record for this facility was located. Unlike Washington State, Pennsylvania has no indexed statutory inspection regime for private immigration detention in the records searched. Locator: State and county record search.
Collection searched · August 20, 2026 · not an event date
What this does not establish
That no state or county authority inspects this facility. This is the result of a search, not a legal conclusion about jurisdiction.
Dossier last reviewed · August 20, 2026 · not an event date
Dossier last reviewed · August 20, 2026 · not an event date
Dossier last reviewed · August 20, 2026 · not an event date
GEO Group holds operator role established here by a cited record.
Political finance and lobbying records for GEO GroupThese are company-wide records. They are not allocated to this facility and do not establish that political activity caused any award or facility decision.