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
133
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
64.8 days
Guaranteed minimum
650
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
Otero County has held people for ICE at Chaparral under an intergovernmental service agreement that expired in 2019 and ran on extensions. Weeks after New Mexico enacted House Bill 9 in February 2026, the county adopted a new five-year agreement at a March 13 emergency meeting; the state determined that meeting violated the Open Meetings Act, the county re-voted on March 25, and the state asked the Supreme Court to void the agreement. The court denied that request on April 16 without an opinion. ICE's fiscal 2026 workbook reports an average daily population of 831.0 against a guaranteed minimum of 650. This dossier carries the legal and institutional record. It carries no current money figure and no conditions finding.
Partial dossier · Last reviewed August 21, 2026
Published as partial. Identity, institutional roles, the agreement chronology and the 2026 legal record are established. Current money, the executed agreement and staffing contract terms, conditions, and the facility's present status under House Bill 9 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
Board of County Commissioners for Otero County — owner
Management & Training Corporation — service provider
04
Facility
Otero County Processing Center
05
Findings
8 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
The Processing Center is not the Otero County Prison Facility
The Otero County Processing Center at 26 McGregor Range Road is its own ICE workbook row. The adjacent Otero County Prison Facility, county jails, and other El Paso-area facilities are separate, and no figure is carried across them.
Otero County Processing Center
26 MCGREGOR RANGE ROAD, CHAPARRAL, NM 88081
Locator · ICE FY2026 workbook row
What this does not establish
Anything about the adjacent prison facility, its operator, contracts, inspections or populations.
Observed means an official record documents it. Attributed means a named source reached the finding. The two are never summed.
Inspection and oversight records
8
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
OwnerBoard of County Commissioners for Otero County
No effective period printed in the indexed record
The state's mandamus petition says the county has for many years held people for ICE at the Otero County Processing Center and is responsible under the agreement for providing ICE with the physical structure, equipment, facilities, personnel and services to detain 1,000 people. No reviewed record prints when the county acquired or built the property, so no start date is published.
What this does not establish
The acquisition or construction date, the title holder of record, bond or lease terms, or that the county performs detention work itself.
Contracting authorityU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
No effective period printed in the indexed record
ICE is the federal counterparty to the intergovernmental service agreement described in the petition and prints this facility as its own row in the fiscal 2026 detention-statistics workbook. The petition says the prior agreement expired in 2019 and ran on periodic extensions, the last set to expire on or around March 15, 2026.
What this does not establish
Any obligation, outlay, per diem, monthly payment or award identifier, and the original agreement date.
The state's petition says the county contracted in turn with a private company, Management & Training Corporation, to staff the facility, and cites that county-company contract. Staffing under a county contract is what the reviewed record establishes. Secondary reporting sometimes calls the company the operator; no reviewed agreement delegates facility-wide operation to it, so it is carried as a staffing and services provider and no operator role is published for this facility.
What this does not establish
That the company owns the property, that it operates the facility, what it is paid, the contract's term or dates, or which legal entity signed it.
Intergovernmental counterpartyNew Mexico Department of Justice
March 20, 2026 — no end date printed
The department exercised state oversight and litigating authority here: it issued an Open Meetings Act determination to the county on March 20, 2026 and petitioned the New Mexico Supreme Court on April 1, 2026. It is a state authority in this record, not an owner, operator or funder.
What this does not establish
That the department's legal theories were accepted, or that it has authority over facility conditions.
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.
20262027
Money and award actions
No record indexed in this lane
Population and capacity
No record indexed in this lane
Inspections and oversight
Litigation and corrective action
No record indexed in this lane
Observed and attributed harm
No record indexed in this lane
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
Feb 05, 2026
Inspections and oversight
New Mexico enacted House Bill 9 on February 5, 2026, effective May 20, 2026House Bill 9 bars public bodies, including counties, from entering, extending, renewing or otherwise agreeing to be a party to an agreement to detain individuals for federal civil immigration violations, and requires any public body party to such an agreement to terminate it at the earliest permissible date. The governor signed it on February 5, 2026 and it takes effect May 20, 2026. Whether it applies to this agreement remained disputed in the reviewed record.New Mexico LegislatureNew Mexico Department of Justice
Observed / verified
Feb 26, 2026
Inspections and oversight
Office of Detention Oversight inspection ended February 26, 2026, marked PassICE's fiscal 2026 workbook records an Office of Detention Oversight inspection of this facility ending February 26, 2026 under PBNDS 2011 with 2016 revisions, with a final rating of Pass. The underlying report is not indexed by this project. Pass is ICE's own summary label. It is not a conditions finding, it does not establish that no deficiency was recorded, and it says nothing about the legal dispute over the agreement.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Observed / verified
Mar 13, 2026
Inspections and oversight
County commission adopted a new five-year agreement at a March 13, 2026 emergency meetingThe commission convened an emergency meeting on March 13, 2026 without the Open Meetings Act's usual public notice, took no public comment, and adopted a new intergovernmental service agreement. The state's petition says the agreement runs five years unless ICE terminates it and gives the county no right to terminate. This record carries the vote and the meeting's classification, not a judgment about its validity.New Mexico Department of JusticeNew Mexico Department of Justice
Observed / verified
Mar 20, 2026
Inspections and oversight
State determination letter filed with the commission: the emergency meeting did not comply with the Open Meetings ActIn a March 20, 2026 letter to the commission chair, the New Mexico Department of Justice said its Government Counsel and Accountability Bureau watched the March 13 meeting and determined the action taken there failed to meet the Open Meetings Act's emergency criteria, and that the county needed to come into compliance. This is an agency determination by the office with statutory authority to enforce that act. It is not a court judgment, and the county disputed it.New Mexico Department of Justice
Observed / verified
Mar 25, 2026
Inspections and oversight
County re-voted on March 25, 2026 at a noticed meeting to cure the earlier actionCommissioners met on March 25, 2026 at a properly noticed hearing and, without admitting fault, ratified the action taken at the emergency meeting. The state said the agreement still had not been submitted to the Department of Finance and Administration for approval under the Joint Powers Agreements Act, and that state approval was required. The legal effect of the second vote was disputed and is not resolved here.New Mexico Department of JusticeSource New Mexico
Observed / verified
Apr 01, 2026
Inspections and oversight
State petitioned the New Mexico Supreme Court to void the agreementOn April 1, 2026 the attorney general filed an emergency verified petition for a writ of mandamus and a request for a stay against the Board of County Commissioners for Otero County. The petition argues the county lacks statutory authority to hold people accused of civil immigration violations, and says the county cited NMSA 1978, Section 33-3-16 in its contract with its staffing company as the authority to hold federal prisoners. Everything in the petition is the state's allegation and litigating position at this stage.New Mexico Department of JusticeNew Mexico Department of Justice
Allegation
Apr 16, 2026
Inspections and oversight
New Mexico Supreme Court denied the petition on April 16, 2026 without an opinionThe court declined to intervene, leaving the agreement in place while the dispute continued. The denial establishes that the requested extraordinary relief was denied. It does not establish that the agreement is lawful, that the department's theories were rejected on the merits, or that House Bill 9 does not apply. The reviewed record contains no written opinion, so no reasoning is published here, and this project does not describe the outcome as a win on the merits for either side.Source New Mexico
Attributed finding
May 13, 2026
Inspections and oversight
State agreed in May 2026 to hold off on enforcing House Bill 9 during a federal caseNews reporting says the attorney general agreed, in a May 13, 2026 filing, to hold off enforcing House Bill 9 while a federal lawsuit against the state proceeds. This is procedural context about the statute's enforcement posture, carried because the statute is central to this facility's dispute. It is not a ruling about this facility, and no reviewed record establishes the facility's present status under the statute.Source New Mexico
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
As of Apr 01, 2026
Money and award actions
The intergovernmental service agreement expired in 2019 and ran on extensions to March 2026The state's petition says the county has for many years held people for ICE at this facility under an intergovernmental service agreement, that the agreement expired in 2019, that the county and ICE agreed to periodic extensions, and that the last extension was set to expire on or around March 15, 2026. These are the state's representations in a filed petition. No price, per diem, payment or award identifier is established, and this project publishes no receipt for this facility.New Mexico Department of Justice
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.
February 5, 2026 · Inspections and oversightObserved / verified
New Mexico enacted House Bill 9 on February 5, 2026, effective May 20, 2026
House Bill 9 bars public bodies, including counties, from entering, extending, renewing or otherwise agreeing to be a party to an agreement to detain individuals for federal civil immigration violations, and requires any public body party to such an agreement to terminate it at the earliest permissible date. The governor signed it on February 5, 2026 and it takes effect May 20, 2026. Whether it applies to this agreement remained disputed in the reviewed record.
Locator
H.B. 9, 57th Leg., 2nd Sess. (N.M. 2026); petition, Facts and Procedural History
Linked to this facility by
The petition cites the statute directly in connection with this county's agreement.
What this does not establish
That this agreement violates the statute, that any court has applied it here, or the facility's present status under it.
February 26, 2026 · Inspections and oversightObserved / verified
Office of Detention Oversight inspection ended February 26, 2026, marked Pass
ICE's fiscal 2026 workbook records an Office of Detention Oversight inspection of this facility ending February 26, 2026 under PBNDS 2011 with 2016 revisions, with a final rating of Pass. The underlying report is not indexed by this project. Pass is ICE's own summary label. It is not a conditions finding, it does not establish that no deficiency was recorded, and it says nothing about the legal dispute over the agreement.
Locator
ICE FY2026 workbook row: OTERO COUNTY PROCESSING CENTER
Linked to this facility by
The workbook row is this facility's own row, matched on printed name and address.
What this does not establish
Any finding, deficiency, correction or condition, and nothing about the validity of the agreement.
March 13, 2026 · Inspections and oversightObserved / verified
County commission adopted a new five-year agreement at a March 13, 2026 emergency meeting
The commission convened an emergency meeting on March 13, 2026 without the Open Meetings Act's usual public notice, took no public comment, and adopted a new intergovernmental service agreement. The state's petition says the agreement runs five years unless ICE terminates it and gives the county no right to terminate. This record carries the vote and the meeting's classification, not a judgment about its validity.
Locator
Determination letter, March 20, 2026; petition, Facts and Procedural History
Linked to this facility by
Both records concern this county commission's vote about this facility.
What this does not establish
That the meeting or the agreement is valid or invalid, the agreement's price terms, or its effective date.
March 20, 2026 · Inspections and oversightObserved / verified
State determination letter filed with the commission: the emergency meeting did not comply with the Open Meetings Act
In a March 20, 2026 letter to the commission chair, the New Mexico Department of Justice said its Government Counsel and Accountability Bureau watched the March 13 meeting and determined the action taken there failed to meet the Open Meetings Act's emergency criteria, and that the county needed to come into compliance. This is an agency determination by the office with statutory authority to enforce that act. It is not a court judgment, and the county disputed it.
Locator
Letter, March 20, 2026, Re: Invalid Convening of Emergency Meeting
Procedural status
Agency determination issued; disputed by the county; no court ruling on it in the reviewed record.
Linked to this facility by
The letter concerns the vote on this facility's ICE agreement.
What this does not establish
That a court has voided the meeting or the agreement, or that the county accepted the determination.
March 25, 2026 · Inspections and oversightObserved / verified
County re-voted on March 25, 2026 at a noticed meeting to cure the earlier action
Commissioners met on March 25, 2026 at a properly noticed hearing and, without admitting fault, ratified the action taken at the emergency meeting. The state said the agreement still had not been submitted to the Department of Finance and Administration for approval under the Joint Powers Agreements Act, and that state approval was required. The legal effect of the second vote was disputed and is not resolved here.
Locator
Petition, Facts and Procedural History; news report, March 26, 2026
Linked to this facility by
Both records describe the same March 25 commission vote on this agreement.
What this does not establish
That the second vote cured the earlier defect, that state approval was or was not legally required, or that the agreement is now valid.
April 1, 2026 · Inspections and oversightAllegation
State petitioned the New Mexico Supreme Court to void the agreement
On April 1, 2026 the attorney general filed an emergency verified petition for a writ of mandamus and a request for a stay against the Board of County Commissioners for Otero County. The petition argues the county lacks statutory authority to hold people accused of civil immigration violations, and says the county cited NMSA 1978, Section 33-3-16 in its contract with its staffing company as the authority to hold federal prisoners. Everything in the petition is the state's allegation and litigating position at this stage.
Locator
Emergency Verified Petition for Writ of Mandamus, April 1, 2026
Procedural status
Filed; denied on April 16, 2026 without a written opinion in the reviewed record.
Linked to this facility by
The petition names this facility and this county commission.
What this does not establish
That the county lacks authority, that the agreement is unlawful, or that any allegation in the petition is true.
April 16, 2026 · Inspections and oversightAttributed finding
New Mexico Supreme Court denied the petition on April 16, 2026 without an opinion
The court declined to intervene, leaving the agreement in place while the dispute continued. The denial establishes that the requested extraordinary relief was denied. It does not establish that the agreement is lawful, that the department's theories were rejected on the merits, or that House Bill 9 does not apply. The reviewed record contains no written opinion, so no reasoning is published here, and this project does not describe the outcome as a win on the merits for either side.
Locator
News report, April 17, 2026
Procedural status
Extraordinary relief denied; no written opinion in the reviewed record.
Linked to this facility by
The report concerns the state's petition about this county's agreement.
What this does not establish
Any merits holding, any reasoning, the agreement's lawfulness, or the statute's applicability to this facility.
May 13, 2026 · Inspections and oversightAttributed finding
State agreed in May 2026 to hold off on enforcing House Bill 9 during a federal case
News reporting says the attorney general agreed, in a May 13, 2026 filing, to hold off enforcing House Bill 9 while a federal lawsuit against the state proceeds. This is procedural context about the statute's enforcement posture, carried because the statute is central to this facility's dispute. It is not a ruling about this facility, and no reviewed record establishes the facility's present status under the statute.
Locator
News report, May 14, 2026
Procedural status
Federal case pending in the reviewed record.
Linked to this facility by
The statute in the federal case is the same statute the state invoked against this agreement.
What this does not establish
That the statute was struck down, stayed by a court, or held inapplicable to this facility, or any outcome in the federal case.
Otero County has held people for ICE at this facility under an intergovernmental service agreement that expired in 2019 and ran on extensions through March 2026.
New Mexico enacted House Bill 9 on February 5, 2026, effective May 20, 2026, barring public bodies from entering, extending or renewing civil immigration detention agreements.
The county adopted a new five-year agreement at a March 13, 2026 emergency meeting; the state determined on March 20 that the meeting failed the Open Meetings Act's emergency criteria; the county re-voted on March 25.
The state petitioned the New Mexico Supreme Court on April 1, 2026, and the court denied the petition on April 16 without a written opinion in the reviewed record.
The county contracted with Management & Training Corporation to staff the facility.
ICE's fiscal 2026 workbook reports an average daily population of 831.0 against a guaranteed minimum of 650, with an inspection ending February 26, 2026 rated Pass.
What this does not establish
A final judicial ruling that the agreement is lawful or unlawful.
That the April 16 denial rejected the state's theories on the merits, or that House Bill 9 does not apply here.
That Management & Training Corporation owns or operates the facility.
Current federal obligations, outlays, per diem, payments, county revenue, or what the staffing company is paid.
Current conditions, harm, or corrective-action findings.
That the workbook's Pass rating validates the agreement or proves no deficiencies.
Reviewed name matches
OTERO COUNTY PROCESSING CENTER — The name ICE prints on the fiscal 2026 workbook row for 26 McGregor Range Road, Chaparral, New Mexico.
OCPC — The abbreviation the New Mexico Department of Justice uses for this facility throughout its April 1, 2026 mandamus petition.
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.
The executed 2026 agreement and its exhibits are not indexed
Searched — nothing released
The petition quotes and attaches parts of the agreement, but no clean executed copy with its exhibits and price terms was located in a public collection on the search date. Locator: Petition attachments B and C.
Collection searched · August 21, 2026 · not an event date
What this does not establish
The agreement's terms beyond the passages the petition quotes.
The county's staffing contract with Management & Training Corporation is not indexed
Searched — nothing released
The petition cites the county-company contract, but the contract itself, its term, its compensation, and the contracting legal entity were not located on the search date. Locator: Petition, Attachment C.
Collection searched · August 21, 2026 · not an event date
What this does not establish
What the company is paid, or the scope of its duties beyond staffing.
No current federal payment or county accounting record is indexed
Searched — nothing released
This project holds no obligation, outlay, per diem, monthly payment, county fee or net county revenue figure for this facility, and publishes no receipt for it. A bed count and a guaranteed minimum are not money. Locator: ICE FY2026 workbook row.
Collection searched · August 21, 2026 · not an event date
The February 2026 inspection report text is not indexed
Searched — nothing released
ICE's workbook prints the inspection date, standard and rating, but the Office of Detention Oversight report itself was not located in a published collection on the search date. Locator: ICE FY2026 workbook row.
Collection searched · August 21, 2026 · not an event date
Later state and federal docket orders are not indexed
Searched — nothing released
No written order from the New Mexico Supreme Court proceeding, and no order from the federal case over House Bill 9, was located on the search date. The facility's present status under the statute is therefore not established. Locator: News reports, April 17 and May 14, 2026.
Collection searched · August 21, 2026 · not an event date
No facility-specific harm, complaint or death record is carried
Searched — nothing released
No reviewed record in this project establishes a case-level harm, complaint or death at this facility. Absence here means nothing was found in the sources indexed, not that nothing occurred. Locator: ICE FY2026 workbook row.
Collection searched · August 21, 2026 · not an event date
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.