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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.

BASILE, LA · Dedicated intergovernmental service agreement

South Louisiana ICE Processing Center

ICE's published operating figures for this facility, with the researched record set out below.

01

What ICE publishes

FY2026 average daily population
923.6

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
134

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
40.2 days
Guaranteed minimum
700

A population level a contract treats as guaranteed. The workbook prints the number, not the price.

Last inspection end
March 19, 2026
Last final rating
Pass

ICE workbook data pull, 2026-07-20

02

Money this project traces here

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

South Louisiana ICE Processing Center is a current ICE facility at 3843 Stagg Avenue in Basile, Louisiana, with GEO Group named in the reviewed company record. ICE's fiscal 2026 workbook reports an average daily population of 923.6 against a printed guaranteed minimum of 700, and an Office of Detention Oversight inspection ending March 19, 2026 marked Pass. A complaint source names the facility; what it asserts is an allegation, and no allegation category is repeated here without an exact extraction. The contract chain, the payment terms and any facility-specific harm record are unresolved.

Partial dossier · Last reviewed August 21, 2026

Published as partial. Identity, the company relationship as the company states it, the workbook snapshot and the existence of a facility-naming complaint are established. Ownership, the contract chain, the payment terms, complaint detail, inspection findings and any harm record 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

  • The GEO Group, Inc. — operator

04

Facility

  • South Louisiana ICE Processing Center

05

Findings

  • 2 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

Basile is not Jena, and similar Louisiana names are held apart

South Louisiana ICE Processing Center is at 3843 Stagg Avenue in Basile. Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center is a separate facility in Jena with its own row, agreement and record. Pine Prairie, the Alexandria Staging Facility and similarly named Louisiana prisons are likewise separate. Name similarity is never treated as identity.

SOUTH LOUISIANA ICE PROCESSING CENTER
3843 STAGG AVENUE, BASILE, LA
Held apart (1)
Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center, Jena, LA
Held apart (2)
Pine Prairie ICE Processing Center; Alexandria Staging Facility

Locator · ICE FY2026 workbook rows

What this does not establish

Nothing about the other Louisiana facilities' operators, agreements, inspections or populations, and nothing that would justify combining their figures.

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
1
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

  • No effective period printed in the indexed record

    GEO Group's own facility disclosure names South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Basile and describes the company running it. The complaint source that also names the company is not used to establish the role, and no reviewed source prints a start date.

    What this does not establish

    When operation began, property ownership, the executed government agreement, every subcontract, current payments, or independent facility conditions.

  • Federal agencyU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement

    No effective period printed in the indexed record

    ICE maintains a facility record for South Louisiana ICE Processing Center and prints it as its own row in the fiscal 2026 detention-statistics workbook, classed as a dedicated intergovernmental service agreement.

    What this does not establish

    The identity of the local intergovernmental counterparty, the executed agreement, the per diem, or any payment amount for this facility.

C

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.

Facility evidence records by date, lane, evidence status and source.
DateLaneRecordStatus
Mar 19, 2026Inspections and oversightOffice of Detention Oversight inspection ended March 19, 2026, marked PassICE's fiscal 2026 workbook records an Office of Detention Oversight inspection of this facility ending March 19, 2026 under the PBNDS 2011 (2016 revisions) standard, 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 safety finding, it does not establish that no deficiency was cited, and it does not answer anything raised in the complaint source.U.S. Immigration and Customs EnforcementObserved / verified
As of Jul 20, 2026Population and capacityFiscal 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 EnforcementObserved / verified
As of Jul 20, 2026Population and capacityFiscal 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 EnforcementObserved / verified
As of Jul 20, 2026Population and capacityContracted 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 EnforcementObserved / verified
As of Aug 21, 2026Money and award actionsGEO identifies a current company relationship to South LouisianaGEO Group's own facility disclosure names South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Basile and describes the company's relationship to it. This is the company's own current description of its role. It carries no start date and no government confirmation.The GEO Group, Inc.Attributed finding
No date printedLitigation and corrective actionA complaint source raised facility-specific concerns at South LouisianaA complaint source in this project's docket names South Louisiana ICE Processing Center and raises concerns about it. What is recorded here is that a facility-naming complaint exists. Its allegation categories are not repeated, because none was extracted with an exact locator, and nothing in it is stated as this project's own conclusion.Complaint counsel / government civil-rights recordAllegation
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.

Date not printed · Litigation and corrective actionAllegation

A complaint source raised facility-specific concerns at South Louisiana

A complaint source in this project's docket names South Louisiana ICE Processing Center and raises concerns about it. What is recorded here is that a facility-naming complaint exists. Its allegation categories are not repeated, because none was extracted with an exact locator, and nothing in it is stated as this project's own conclusion.

Locator
Complaint source naming the facility, locator not extracted
Procedural status
Complaint asserted; no adjudication, investigation outcome or response is indexed here.
Linked to this facility by
The complaint names South Louisiana ICE Processing Center.

What this does not establish

That any allegation was substantiated, current, facility-wide, the cause of a named injury, or attributable to a specific company or employee.

March 19, 2026 · Inspections and oversightObserved / verified

Office of Detention Oversight inspection ended March 19, 2026, marked Pass

ICE's fiscal 2026 workbook records an Office of Detention Oversight inspection of this facility ending March 19, 2026 under the PBNDS 2011 (2016 revisions) standard, 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 safety finding, it does not establish that no deficiency was cited, and it does not answer anything raised in the complaint source.

Locator
ICE FY2026 workbook row: SOUTH LOUISIANA ICE 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 conditions after March 2026.

F

What this dossier does and does not establish

Establishes

  • ICE's fiscal 2026 workbook and facility record identify South Louisiana ICE Processing Center in Basile, Louisiana as a current ICE detention facility.
  • GEO Group's own facility disclosure names the facility and describes a current company relationship to it.
  • The workbook supplies a dated snapshot: an average daily population of 923.6, an average length of stay of 40.2 days, a printed guaranteed minimum of 700, and an inspection ending March 19, 2026 rated Pass.
  • A complaint source in the docket names this facility.

What this does not establish

  • Property ownership, or when the company's operating role began.
  • The local intergovernmental counterparty or the executed agreement.
  • Any contract price, per diem, guarantee payment, obligation or outlay for this facility.
  • What the complaint alleges, or that any allegation was substantiated.
  • Any inspection finding or corrective-action status.
  • A death, injury, preventability, negligence or contractor responsibility.

Reviewed name matches

  • SOUTH LOUISIANA ICE PROCESSING CENTER — The name ICE prints on the fiscal 2026 workbook row for 3843 Stagg Avenue, Basile, Louisiana.
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.

  1. No allegation categories extracted from the complaint source

    Searched — nothing released

    The complaint source was not reachable during the packet's own URL validation, so no filing date, allegation category or locator was extracted. The record therefore says only that a facility-naming complaint exists. Locator: Batch 05 packet source docket.

    Collection searched · August 21, 2026 · not an event date

    What this does not establish

    What the complaint alleges, when it was filed, whether it was investigated, or what any response said.

  2. No reviewed agreement, award or payment record for this facility

    Searched — nothing released

    ICE classes the facility as a dedicated intergovernmental service agreement, but no reviewed agreement names the local entity holding it, and no award in this project's ledger names this facility as a place of performance. Company capacity, revenue and contract-term statements are not substituted for a federal amount. Locator: ICE FY2026 workbook row.

    Collection searched · August 21, 2026 · not an event date

    What this does not establish

    That no agreement or award exists, or that no federal money reaches this facility.

  3. No inspection report text or audit findings indexed

    Searched — nothing released

    This project holds ICE's workbook summary of the March 2026 inspection and no underlying report, and no Prison Rape Elimination Act audit text. An index proves a record exists, not what it found, and an audit status is not an all-conditions safety rating. Locator: ICE FY2026 workbook row.

    Collection searched · August 21, 2026 · not an event date

    What this does not establish

    That no deficiency was cited, that any recommendation was closed, or that conditions were adequate.

  4. No facility-specific harm or death record published

    Searched — nothing released

    No death, injury or medical record naming this facility is published here. Any person-level lead waits on ICE, a medical examiner, a court or a reviewed case source naming the person, the date and the facility. Locator: Batch 05 packet source docket.

    Collection searched · August 21, 2026 · not an event date

    What this does not establish

    Absence from the records published here does not establish that no one died or was harmed at this facility.

  5. Which agreement authorises ICE use of the facility, and which local entity holds it?

    Open — no search recorded

    Dossier last reviewed · August 21, 2026 · not an event date

  6. Does GEO own the property, and since when?

    Open — no search recorded

    Dossier last reviewed · August 21, 2026 · not an event date

  7. Which federal award, if any, names this facility as a place of performance?

    Open — no search recorded

    Dossier last reviewed · August 21, 2026 · not an event date

  8. What did the March 2026 inspection record?

    Open — no search recorded

    Dossier last reviewed · August 21, 2026 · not an event date

  9. What exactly does the complaint source allege, and what became of it?

    Open — no search recorded

    Dossier last reviewed · August 21, 2026 · not an event date

  10. Which providers handle medical, food, transportation and maintenance services?

    Open — no search recorded

    Dossier last reviewed · August 21, 2026 · not an event date

H

Dossier sources

Company-level political and lobbying records

GEO Group holds operator role established here by a cited record.

Political finance and lobbying records for GEO Group

These are company-wide records. They are not allocated to this facility and do not establish that political activity caused any award or facility decision.

05

Award and harm sources