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.
FERRIDAY, LA · 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.
A high-population Louisiana DIGSA. ICE's own 2019 oversight inspection records the facility as owned and operated by LaSalle Corrections, and released modifications name the Concordia Parish Sheriff's Office as the local signatory to agreement 70CDCR19DIG000004. What the government pays under that agreement is still not on the public record, and neither is a current title record or a current detailed inspection.
Partial dossier · Last reviewed August 26, 2026
Owner, operator, and local signatory now rest on ICE's own records: a 2019 oversight inspection naming LaSalle Corrections, and released modifications naming the Concordia Parish Sheriff's Office. A current title record, the agreement's rate and payments, and a current detailed inspection remain unresolved.
Evidence chain · every edge labelled by what the record establishes
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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
Louisiana’s directory prints separate names and addresses six numbers apart on Highway 15.
What this does not establish
Physical proximity and a shared parish do not establish one facility, one operator, or shared events.
Partly resolved · record obtained August 26, 2026
ICE's own oversight inspectors recorded the owner and operator. The Office of Detention Oversight report on its November 19–21, 2019 inspection states that the facility opened in 2001 and is owned and operated by LaSalle Corrections, and that LaSalle Corrections provides food services and medical care there. That is an ICE-recorded fact as of November 2019. For the present day, the only reviewed indicator is ICE's current facility page, which routes video-teleconference and reception contact for the facility through lasallecorrections.com addresses. No deed, parcel record, or current agreement was obtained, so the owner and operator of record today are carried as continuing rather than re-established.
How the records settle it The inspection's Facility Overview is written by the inspecting agency, names the company in the ownership and operation sentence, and separately assigns food service and medical care to the same company. The present-day indicator is weaker in kind: an agency contact directory using the company's email domain, which shows who answers for the facility, not who holds title.
Still open No title record was obtained. Whether LaSalle Corrections still owns the real property, and which LaSalle entity holds it, is unestablished. The inspection's bed-capacity and average-population figures are redacted, and no later ICE inspection report naming the owner or operator was found.
What this does not establish
This does not establish current ownership from a title record, name a corporate parent or subsidiary, or attribute any condition, finding, or expenditure at the facility to the named company.
Resolved · record obtained August 26, 2026
The local signatory is the Concordia Parish Sheriff's Office. ICE released two executed modifications to intergovernmental service agreement 70CDCR19DIG000004, titled by the agency as the Concordia Parish (River Correctional Center) IGSA. The provider block names the Concordia Parish Sheriff's Office at 4001 Carter Street, New Court House Building Room 6, Vidalia, Louisiana, with unique entity identifier FM41FJJATGQE. The agreement is dated February 1, 2019 and the continuation sheets print a period of performance running to January 31, 2024.
How the records settle it The provider block, agreement number, and date fields of an executed Standard Form 30 released by the contracting agency, with the facility named in ICE's own title for the document.
Still open The base agreement was not obtained; only two modifications were. Whether the stated period was extended past January 31, 2024, and under what terms, is unestablished, and the signatures and modification numbers on the released pages are redacted or illegible.
What this does not establish
Naming the signatory does not establish who operates the facility day to day, what the sheriff's office is paid, whether it subcontracts operation, or that the agreement is still in force.
Still unresolved · record obtained August 26, 2026
The money is still not on the record. The two released modifications print no per-diem rate, no bed guarantee, and no total obligation; the only dollar figure on them is $0.00, attached to a non-funding modification that adds a contracting officer's representative. Searches of the federal award dataset on August 25, 2026 returned no award under agreement number 70CDCR19DIG000004 and no Homeland Security award of any kind to the Concordia Parish Sheriff's Office — its only federal award in the dataset is an Army law-enforcement services contract unrelated to detention.
How the records settle it A read of both released modifications for financial fields, plus a recorded keyword and recipient search of the federal award dataset across contract and indefinite-delivery-vehicle award types for fiscal years 2015 through 2026.
Still open The rate, the bed commitment, the obligations, and the payments remain unobtained. ICE's disclosure library holds only these two modifications; the base agreement and any later modifications would have to come from a records request.
What this does not establish
An empty search result is not evidence that no money moved. Intergovernmental detention agreements are frequently absent from the federal award dataset, and absence there establishes only what the dataset does not carry.
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 River as a DIGSA facility in its current detention-management collection.
What this does not establish
The reviewed sources do not establish the rate, obligations, outlays, or payments under the agreement.
February 1, 2019 — January 31, 2024
Executed modifications to intergovernmental service agreement 70CDCR19DIG000004, released by ICE, name the Concordia Parish Sheriff's Office of Vidalia, Louisiana as the provider and print a period of performance of February 1, 2019 to January 31, 2024.
What this does not establish
The released modifications do not establish whether the agreement was extended past January 31, 2024, what the sheriff's office is paid, or that it operates the facility itself.
No effective period printed in the indexed record
ICE's Office of Detention Oversight recorded, in its report on the November 19–21, 2019 inspection, that the facility opened in 2001 and is owned and operated by LaSalle Corrections. No later record of ownership was obtained.
What this does not establish
An inspection sentence is not a title record. It does not establish which LaSalle entity holds the property, when ownership began, or that the same party owns it today.
No effective period printed in the indexed record
The same ICE oversight report records the facility as operated by LaSalle Corrections, with the company providing food services and medical care. ICE's current facility page routes video-teleconference and reception contact through lasallecorrections.com addresses, which is consistent with continued operation but is a contact directory, not an agreement.
What this does not establish
This does not establish the operator's current contract, its terms, or responsibility for any condition, finding, or death at the facility.
No effective period printed in the indexed record
The November 2019 ICE oversight report states that LaSalle Corrections provides food services and medical care at the facility.
What this does not establish
This records the arrangement as of the 2019 inspection. It does not establish current medical staffing, a subcontractor, or the quality of care provided.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 06, 2018 – Aug 19, 2021 | Inspections and oversight | ICE indexes multiple River inspections from 2018 through 2021The ICE index lists River entries dated December 6, 2018; October 24, 2019; March 12, 2020; March 17, 2021; and August 19, 2021.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | Observed / verified |
| Feb 01, 2019 | Money and award actions | ICE released two modifications to agreement 70CDCR19DIG000004 with the Concordia Parish Sheriff's OfficeThe modifications name the Concordia Parish Sheriff's Office in Vidalia as the provider, print an agreement date of February 1, 2019, and state a period of performance running to January 31, 2024. One modification adds a contracting officer's representative at an obligated amount of $0.00. Neither prints a per-diem rate, a bed guarantee, or a total obligation.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Office of Acquisition Management (proactive disclosure) | Observed / verified |
| Nov 19, 2019 – Nov 21, 2019 | Inspections and oversight | ICE oversight inspectors recorded the facility as owned and operated by LaSalle CorrectionsThe Office of Detention Oversight report on the November 19–21, 2019 inspection states that the facility opened in 2001, that it is owned and operated by LaSalle Corrections, that the company provides food services and medical care, and that ICE began housing detainees there in 2019 under the New Orleans Field Office. The report records the facility as operating under the National Detention Standards 2000 and holding no accreditations. Bed capacity and average population are redacted.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Office of Professional Responsibility, Office of Detention Oversight | Observed / verified |
| As of Jul 09, 2026 | Population and capacity | FY2026 workbook reports ADP 517.3 and a printed minimum of 361ICE records a male Louisiana DIGSA row with average length of stay 39.4 days.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | Observed / verified |
| As of Aug 25, 2026 | Population and capacity | ICE maintains a current River Correctional Center facility identityThe agency facility URL and workbook preserve River as a distinct ICE detention location in Ferriday.U.S. Immigration and Customs EnforcementU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | Observed / verified |
| As of Jul 09, 2026 | Inspections and oversight | Workbook pairs “Scheduled FY26” with PassThe current row prints ODO, Scheduled FY26, Pass, and PBNDS 2011–2016 revisions.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | Observed / verified |
| As of Aug 26, 2026 | Money and award actions | The agreement bars the parish from discussing it publicly without ICE approvalBoth released continuation sheets carry the same clause: there shall be no public disclosures regarding the agreement made by the provider or any subcontractors without review and approval of such disclosure by ICE.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Office of Acquisition Management (proactive disclosure) | 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 current row prints ODO, Scheduled FY26, Pass, and PBNDS 2011–2016 revisions.
What this does not establish
The packet does not infer whether the date field is stale, the inspection was completed, or the rating belongs to another cycle.
The ICE index lists River entries dated December 6, 2018; October 24, 2019; March 12, 2020; March 17, 2021; and August 19, 2021.
What this does not establish
Historical index entries do not establish current conditions, full findings, or remediation status.
The Office of Detention Oversight report on the November 19–21, 2019 inspection states that the facility opened in 2001, that it is owned and operated by LaSalle Corrections, that the company provides food services and medical care, and that ICE began housing detainees there in 2019 under the New Orleans Field Office. The report records the facility as operating under the National Detention Standards 2000 and holding no accreditations. Bed capacity and average population are redacted.
What this does not establish
The overview establishes ownership and operation as ICE recorded them in November 2019. It is not a title record and does not establish who owns or operates the facility today.
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 title record was obtained. Whether LaSalle Corrections still owns the real property, and which LaSalle entity holds it, is unestablished. The inspection's bed-capacity and average-population figures are redacted, and no later ICE inspection report naming the owner or operator was found.
Records obtained and read · August 26, 2026 · not an event date
What this does not establish
This does not establish current ownership from a title record, name a corporate parent or subsidiary, or attribute any condition, finding, or expenditure at the facility to the named company.
The rate, the bed commitment, the obligations, and the payments remain unobtained. ICE's disclosure library holds only these two modifications; the base agreement and any later modifications would have to come from a records request.
Records obtained and read · August 26, 2026 · not an event date
What this does not establish
An empty search result is not evidence that no money moved. Intergovernmental detention agreements are frequently absent from the federal award dataset, and absence there establishes only what the dataset does not carry.
Reviewed primary sources did not safely establish the current property owner or private operator.
Collection searched · August 25, 2026 · not an event date
Narrowed by a record obtained later — see the resolution on this page
What this does not establish
This does not establish public operation or absence of a private contractor.
The workbook’s DIGSA type does not identify the local signatory.
Collection searched · August 25, 2026 · not an event date
Narrowed by a record obtained later — see the resolution on this page
What this does not establish
The facility’s parish location and neighboring county facility do not establish the signatory.
The row contains both a scheduled label and a Pass rating without a dated detailed report in the packet.
Collection searched · August 25, 2026 · not an event date
What this does not establish
The ambiguity is not proof of a data error, completed inspection, or no deficiencies.
No executed agreement, rate, obligation, outlay, invoice, or payment record was safely linked.
Collection searched · August 25, 2026 · not an event date
Narrowed by a record obtained later — see the resolution on this page
What this does not establish
Missing financial records are not evidence of zero payment.
Dossier last reviewed · August 26, 2026 · not an event date
Dossier last reviewed · August 26, 2026 · not an event date
Dossier last reviewed · August 26, 2026 · not an event date
Dossier last reviewed · August 26, 2026 · not an event date