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.
PAHRUMP, NV · Not established
ICE's published operating figures for this facility, with the researched record set out below.
Former ICE detention use; now a different custody system
Why this site is carried here
A county jail in Pahrump, Nevada operated by the Nye County Sheriff's Office. DHS OIG report OIG-25-22 states that ICE housed detainees there from 2019, that ICE removed all detainees on November 5, 2024, and that ICE terminated its contract with Nye County on November 18, 2024. ICE's fiscal 2026 workbook prints no row for the site, so this project holds no ICE population, length-of-stay, guaranteed-minimum or inspection figure for it. The street address is not established in the reviewed sources and is left null rather than guessed. This site is not Nevada Southern Detention Center in Pahrump and not a Nye County detention site in Tonopah.
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.
Nye County Detention Center in Pahrump, Nevada is a county jail operated by the Nye County Sheriff's Office. DHS Office of Inspector General report OIG-25-22 states that ICE housed detainees there from 2019, that an unannounced inspection from July 30 to August 1, 2024 found the facility holding 60 male ICE detainees, that ICE removed all detainees on November 5, 2024 after the county could not reach an agreement with its medical provider, and that ICE terminated the contract on November 18, 2024. All eleven recommendations were administratively closed because ICE no longer held people there, not because remediation was verified. ICE's fiscal 2026 workbook prints no row for the site, so this dossier carries no current population, capacity or inspection figure.
Partial dossier · Last reviewed August 22, 2026
Published as partial. The lifecycle and the OIG record are strong. Exact money, medical contracting, the street address and any post-termination data anomaly remain unresolved, and no current ICE figure is carried because the site is outside the fiscal 2026 workbook.
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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
This dossier covers the Nye County jail in Pahrump operated by the sheriff's office. Nevada Southern Detention Center, also in Pahrump and operated by CoreCivic, is a separate facility and is never merged with this record. Nye County detention sites in Tonopah are also separate. The exact street address of the county jail is not established in the reviewed sources and is left blank rather than guessed.
Locator · OIG-25-22; Nevada Independent, Nye County section
What this does not establish
Any relationship between the two Pahrump facilities beyond shared geography, and no later single ICE data row is treated as reactivating this site.
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.
2019 — November 18, 2024
DHS OIG explicitly states that the Nye County Sheriff's Office operates the facility, and the county publishes the sheriff's office and its Pahrump detention contact.
What this does not establish
This packet does not resolve formal real-property title, and the role dates bound only the period of ICE use established by the report.
2019 — November 18, 2024
OIG states that ICE housed detainees at the facility from 2019 until November 2024 and terminated its contract with Nye County on November 18, 2024.
What this does not establish
No additional inference. Agency custody during that period does not establish the agreement's identifier, rate schedule or payments.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Inspections and oversight | ICE began housing detainees at NyeOIG states ICE began housing detainees at the Pahrump facility in 2019.CiteLaw mirror of DHS OIG report OIG-25-22 | Observed / verified |
| Jul 30, 2024 | Inspections and oversight | OIG inspected Nye without noticeDHS OIG conducted an in-person, unannounced inspection from July 30 through August 1, 2024; the facility held 60 male ICE detainees at the start.CiteLaw mirror of DHS OIG report OIG-25-22 | Observed / verified |
| Aug 01, 2024 | Inspections and oversight | Compliance in several reviewed areasOIG reported compliance in classification, law-library and legal-services access, segregation, and use of force.Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General via Oversight.govCiteLaw mirror of DHS OIG report OIG-25-22 | Observed / verified |
| Aug 01, 2024 | Inspections and oversight | Transfer, medication, follow-up, and sharps-control deficienciesOIG found no transfer screening, medication repackaging by non-pharmacist staff, missing indicated follow-up in 15 of 30 reviewed medical files, and a sharps inventory/log mismatch.CiteLaw mirror of DHS OIG report OIG-25-22 | Observed / verified |
| Aug 01, 2024 | Inspections and oversight | Grievance and request failuresOIG found delayed grievance responses, a staff-misconduct grievance not forwarded to ICE, delayed requests, and outdated ICE contact information.CiteLaw mirror of DHS OIG report OIG-25-22 | Observed / verified |
| Aug 01, 2024 | Inspections and oversight | Water, sanitation, and telephone deficienciesOIG observed a broken segregation-cell sink that prevented access to potable water, shower leakage, an unclean medical isolation room, and housing-unit phones unable to place required outgoing calls.CiteLaw mirror of DHS OIG report OIG-25-22 | Observed / verified |
| Aug 01, 2024 | Inspections and oversight | Health administrator limited OIG accessOIG stated the contracted Health Service Administrator impeded medical-team access, limiting observation of medication passes, sick-call clinics, and segregation rounds.CiteLaw mirror of DHS OIG report OIG-25-22 | Observed / verified |
| Nov 05, 2024 | Inspections and oversight | ICE removed all detaineesICE removed all detainees on November 5, 2024 after the county could not reach an agreement with its medical provider.CiteLaw mirror of DHS OIG report OIG-25-22 | Observed / verified |
| Nov 18, 2024 | Inspections and oversight | ICE terminated the Nye contractICE formally terminated its contract with Nye County on November 18, 2024.CiteLaw mirror of DHS OIG report OIG-25-22 | Observed / verified |
| May 08, 2025 | Inspections and oversight | All 11 recommendations administratively closed after ICE departureOIG administratively closed all recommendations because ICE no longer housed detainees there, while reserving the option to reopen them if ICE returns.Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General via Oversight.govCiteLaw mirror of DHS OIG report OIG-25-22 | Observed / verified |
| Jun 03, 2025 | Money and award actions | County officials described the ICE arrangement as financially unsustainableSecondary reporting quotes county officials and describes approximately $2 million in annual ICE revenue, higher medical costs, and county general-fund support.The Nevada Independent | Attributed finding |
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.
OIG states ICE began housing detainees at the Pahrump facility in 2019.
What this does not establish
The exact first intake date and agreement terms are not established.
DHS OIG conducted an in-person, unannounced inspection from July 30 through August 1, 2024; the facility held 60 male ICE detainees at the start.
What this does not establish
The snapshot does not represent every day of ICE use.
OIG reported compliance in classification, law-library and legal-services access, segregation, and use of force.
What this does not establish
The inspection did not review every standard.
OIG found no transfer screening, medication repackaging by non-pharmacist staff, missing indicated follow-up in 15 of 30 reviewed medical files, and a sharps inventory/log mismatch.
What this does not establish
The report did not adjudicate individual negligence, causation, or injury.
OIG found delayed grievance responses, a staff-misconduct grievance not forwarded to ICE, delayed requests, and outdated ICE contact information.
What this does not establish
The findings apply to reviewed samples and inspection conditions.
OIG observed a broken segregation-cell sink that prevented access to potable water, shower leakage, an unclean medical isolation room, and housing-unit phones unable to place required outgoing calls.
What this does not establish
The report does not establish permanent conditions after ICE departure.
OIG stated the contracted Health Service Administrator impeded medical-team access, limiting observation of medication passes, sick-call clinics, and segregation rounds.
What this does not establish
The report says OIG ultimately obtained the minimal access needed; this is not a finding that the entire inspection was invalid.
ICE removed all detainees on November 5, 2024 after the county could not reach an agreement with its medical provider.
What this does not establish
The county jail itself did not close.
ICE formally terminated its contract with Nye County on November 18, 2024.
What this does not establish
Termination does not prevent a future contract.
OIG administratively closed all recommendations because ICE no longer housed detainees there, while reserving the option to reopen them if ICE returns.
What this does not establish
Administrative closure is not evidence that the deficiencies were corrected.
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.
The historical intergovernmental agreement identifier, its executed rate schedule, its invoices and its payment history were not obtained. No federal amount appears on this dossier. Locator: OIG-25-22 background.
Collection searched · August 22, 2026 · not an event date
What this does not establish
That no payments were made. The reported county revenue figure is secondary reporting, not a federal payment record, and is not used as one.
The reviewed sources establish the facility's identity and city but not its street address. The address field is left blank rather than filled from an unverified listing. Locator: Nye County Sheriff page, South Area Command / Detention contact.
Collection searched · August 22, 2026 · not an event date
What this does not establish
That the facility has no fixed address, and no address is inferred from a nearby or similarly named site.
No contract, amendment or correspondence identifying the private medical provider or explaining why negotiations failed was obtained. Locator: OIG-25-22 medical findings; Nevada Independent reporting.
Collection searched · August 22, 2026 · not an event date
What this does not establish
Responsibility for the failed negotiation, or the identity of the provider.
A later ICE detainee row has been reported as associated with Nye. Its identity, date and operational meaning are not reconciled, so it is withheld from this dossier and from every export. Locator: Nevada Independent, Nye County section.
Collection searched · August 22, 2026 · not an event date
What this does not establish
That ICE resumed detention at this facility, or that the reported row was an error. The question is open.
Dossier last reviewed · August 22, 2026 · not an event date
Dossier last reviewed · August 22, 2026 · not an event date
Dossier last reviewed · August 22, 2026 · not an event date
Dossier last reviewed · August 22, 2026 · not an event date
Dossier last reviewed · August 22, 2026 · not an event date