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
165.7
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
6.8 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
Port Isabel is one of the small number of detention sites ICE runs as a service processing center rather than through a company. The DHS inspector general arrived unannounced and reported in February 2023 that the building holding people in segregation was unsafe and that the facility did not employ enough medical staff to cover even its contracted guaranteed minimum population. ICE refused the recommendation to stop using the segregation building. ICE's own oversight office returned in September 2024 and cited further medical care and hunger strike deficiencies.
Complete dossier · Last reviewed August 20, 2026
Complete: the inspector general report and the most recent published ICE inspection have both been read in full and their findings, recommendation statuses and redactions are recorded. The money lane is empty because no award record in this dataset names this facility.
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
Port Isabel Service Processing Center
05
Findings
6 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.
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
5
Legal instrument, litigation and complaint records
1
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.
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.
20232024202520262027
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
Observed and attributed harm
No record indexed in this lane
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Facility evidence records by date, lane, evidence status and source.
Date
Lane
Record
Status
Feb 01, 2023
Inspections and oversight
Inspector general: segregation standards not met, building unsafeThe DHS inspector general reported that the facility did not meet standards for detainee segregation and that the building used to house people in segregation was unsafe. The report also recorded torn bedding and plumbing issues in housing units, and violations of standards on use of force, requests and grievances, classification documentation and COVID-19 protocols.DHS Office of Inspector General
Observed / verified
Feb 01, 2023
Inspections and oversight
Inspector general: too few medical staff for the guaranteed minimum populationThe inspector general reported the facility did not employ enough medical staff to handle either its contracted guaranteed minimum detainee population or its maximum capacity.DHS Office of Inspector General
Observed / verified
Feb 01, 2023
Litigation and corrective action
ICE did not concur with the recommendation to stop using the segregation buildingThe inspector general's first recommendation was to discontinue use of the building housing the segregation unit. ICE did not concur, responding that a new special management unit building was under construction and that interim steps had been taken. Of the nine recommendations, ICE concurred with eight; the inspector general recorded one resolved and closed, seven resolved and open, and one unresolved and open.DHS Office of Inspector General
Observed / verified
Sep 10, 2024
Inspections and oversight
ICE follow-up inspection, September 10-12, 2024: hunger strike and medical care deficienciesICE's Office of Detention Oversight cited deficiencies in hunger strike management, where a nurse practitioner rather than the required authority ordered release from and termination of hunger strike treatment, and in medical care. Named examples include a person who arrived June 6, 2024 and did not receive an initial mental health screening until June 11, 2024, a health intake screening form not completed for a person housed June 4, 2024 until June 11, 2024, and mental health referrals made August 29 and June 1, 2024 that produced evaluations only on September 4 and June 5, 2024. Two of the medical care findings are marked priority components. ODO also cited a transfer summary for a person moved out on June 13, 2024 with no medication supply recorded.ICE Office of Detention Oversight
Observed / verified
Sep 10, 2024
Inspections and oversight
Detainee interviews during the September 2024 inspectionODO interviewed 27 people who agreed to participate and recorded that none made allegations of discrimination, mistreatment or abuse, and that all reported satisfaction with facility services. Two further people declined to be interviewed.ICE Office of Detention Oversight
Observed / verified
Jun 25, 2026
Inspections and oversight
Most recent inspection recorded in ICE's workbook: June 25, 2026, rated PassICE's detention-management workbook records an Office of Detention Oversight inspection ending June 25, 2026 against the 2011 detention standards, with a final rating of Pass.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Observed / verified
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
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 1, 2023 · Inspections and oversightObserved / verified
Inspector general: segregation standards not met, building unsafe
The DHS inspector general reported that the facility did not meet standards for detainee segregation and that the building used to house people in segregation was unsafe. The report also recorded torn bedding and plumbing issues in housing units, and violations of standards on use of force, requests and grievances, classification documentation and COVID-19 protocols.
Locator
OIG-23-13, What We Found
Linked to this facility by
The report names this facility in its title and inspects it directly.
What this does not establish
The report records standards violations. It does not establish that any person was injured, that any conduct was criminal, or that any of these conditions persist today.
February 1, 2023 · Inspections and oversightObserved / verified
Inspector general: too few medical staff for the guaranteed minimum population
The inspector general reported the facility did not employ enough medical staff to handle either its contracted guaranteed minimum detainee population or its maximum capacity.
Locator
OIG-23-13, What We Found
Linked to this facility by
The report inspects this facility directly.
What this does not establish
A staffing shortfall against a contracted population figure does not establish that any specific person was denied care or harmed. The report itself recorded that the facility complied with medical care standards it reviewed.
February 1, 2023 · Litigation and corrective actionObserved / verified
ICE did not concur with the recommendation to stop using the segregation building
The inspector general's first recommendation was to discontinue use of the building housing the segregation unit. ICE did not concur, responding that a new special management unit building was under construction and that interim steps had been taken. Of the nine recommendations, ICE concurred with eight; the inspector general recorded one resolved and closed, seven resolved and open, and one unresolved and open.
Locator
OIG-23-13, Recommendation 1 and ICE response
Procedural status
One recommendation unresolved and open as printed February 1, 2023
Linked to this facility by
The recommendation is addressed to ICE about this facility.
What this does not establish
Recommendation status as printed in a February 2023 report does not establish today's status. Whether the replacement building opened, or whether the original building is still in use, is not established by anything indexed here.
September 10, 2024 · Inspections and oversightObserved / verified
ICE follow-up inspection, September 10-12, 2024: hunger strike and medical care deficiencies
ICE's Office of Detention Oversight cited deficiencies in hunger strike management, where a nurse practitioner rather than the required authority ordered release from and termination of hunger strike treatment, and in medical care. Named examples include a person who arrived June 6, 2024 and did not receive an initial mental health screening until June 11, 2024, a health intake screening form not completed for a person housed June 4, 2024 until June 11, 2024, and mental health referrals made August 29 and June 1, 2024 that produced evaluations only on September 4 and June 5, 2024. Two of the medical care findings are marked priority components. ODO also cited a transfer summary for a person moved out on June 13, 2024 with no medication supply recorded.
The released copy redacts the file counts, so the number of records reviewed and the number found deficient are not established. No outcome for any person named in the findings is established, and no harm is attributed.
September 10, 2024 · Inspections and oversightObserved / verified
Detainee interviews during the September 2024 inspection
ODO interviewed 27 people who agreed to participate and recorded that none made allegations of discrimination, mistreatment or abuse, and that all reported satisfaction with facility services. Two further people declined to be interviewed.
Interviews conducted by the detaining agency's own inspectors, inside the facility, on a three-day visit, do not establish the absence of mistreatment. They establish what 27 people told ICE inspectors on those days.
June 25, 2026 · Inspections and oversightObserved / verified
Most recent inspection recorded in ICE's workbook: June 25, 2026, rated Pass
ICE's detention-management workbook records an Office of Detention Oversight inspection ending June 25, 2026 against the 2011 detention standards, with a final rating of Pass.
Locator
Workbook row: PORT ISABEL SPC
Linked to this facility by
Reviewed alias join between the ICE workbook row and this facility.
What this does not establish
A Pass rating is ICE's own summary judgment of its own facility. It does not establish that no deficiencies were cited, and the report text behind it has not been published.
The DHS inspector general found in February 2023 that this facility did not meet segregation standards and that the segregation building was unsafe.
The inspector general found the facility did not employ enough medical staff for its contracted guaranteed minimum population or its maximum capacity.
ICE did not concur with the recommendation to stop using the segregation building, citing a replacement building under construction.
ICE's own oversight office cited hunger strike, medical care and detainee transfer deficiencies at a September 2024 follow-up inspection, two of them priority components.
What this does not establish
That any person was injured or died as a result of any condition or delay described in these reports. No harm outcome is recorded in any source read here.
Whether the segregation building described in 2023 is still in use, or whether the replacement building opened.
How many medical files ODO reviewed in 2024. The released copy redacts the counts.
Any dollar figure for this facility. No award in this dataset names it.
Reviewed name matches
PISPC — ICE's September 2024 inspection report abbreviates the facility as PISPC in its own findings text, at the Los Fresnos, Texas location the ICE workbook records.
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.
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.