Detention Pipeline

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Is your county being pitched for ICE detention?

Tracking 2242 signals across 986 counties. Data for activists, journalists, researchers, and policymakers.

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Counties tracked

IGSA Facilities

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Active County Fights

Palm Beach County FL — 'Belly of the Beast' Immigration Enforcement and Community Resistance

Operational-Despite-Opposition · Palm Beach, Florida

Pinal County AZ — County Attorney Signs Rogue 287(g), Board Declares It Illegal

Litigation · Pinal, Arizona

Durant OK — Choctaw Nation Purchases Warehouse to Block ICE Detention Facility

Bradford County FL — 3,000-Bed IGSA Facility on Contaminated Site

Contested · Bradford, Florida

What This Site Does

986 counties scored by signal convergence. Interactive, zoomable, with facility overlay.

Playbook & Counter-Playbook

10 consultant tactics and 9 community counter-tactics, sourced from 13 real fights.

Ready-to-send public records requests targeting detention pipeline activity in your county.

Facilities Directory

495 IGSA facilities with operators, contract types, and conditions records.

Network Visualization

Revolving door between government and private detention industry. Conflict-of-interest matrix.

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Hottest Counties

129 Broward County, FL 5 signals

Broward County, FL shows 2 existing IGSA facilities, 5 287(g) agreements, 3 ANC contracts, detention consultant job posting, and budget distress.

122 Wayne County, MI 6 signals

Wayne County, MI shows 3 existing IGSA facilities, 1 ANC contract, commission activity, communications discipline pattern, and 1 real estate trace.

111 Miami-Dade County, FL 5 signals

Miami-Dade County, FL shows 1 existing IGSA facility, 3 287(g) agreements, 3 ANC contracts, and 9 real estate traces.

110 Charlton County, GA 4 signals

Charlton County, GA shows 4 existing IGSA facilities, and budget distress.

109 Palm Beach County, FL 5 signals

Palm Beach County, FL shows 1 existing IGSA facility, 3 287(g) agreements, 3 ANC contracts, and 1 real estate trace.

107 Pinal County, AZ 4 signals

Pinal County, AZ shows 4 existing IGSA facilities, 2 287(g) agreements, 3 ANC contracts, and 1 real estate trace.

100 Bradford County, FL 5 signals

Bradford County, FL shows 1 existing IGSA facility, 2 287(g) agreements, commission activity, and budget distress.

99 Webb County, TX 4 signals

Webb County, TX shows 2 existing IGSA facilities, 1 287(g) agreement, 3 ANC contracts, and detention consultant job posting.

Key Players

Immigration Centers of America (ICA)

Immigration Centers of America is a niche operator running the 732-bed Farmville VA detention center under an IGSA. Facility is notorious for abuse and inadequate medical care.

Sabot Consulting (Sabot Technologies Inc.)

Sabot Consulting markets 'ICE Integration' services to county sheriffs, staffed by former ICE officials including Acting Director Tae Johnson. Drives the county-led IGSA detention model.

Ahtna Technical Services (Ahtna, Inc.)

Ahtna Technical Services is an Alaska Native Corp subsidiary using 8(a) sole-source contracting to operate ICE facilities including Port Isabel TX. ~$800M in historical contracts.

Apex Site Services

Apex Site Services is a North Texas construction firm that pivoted from COVID testing sites to proposing soft-sided ICE detention facilities, including in Walsenburg CO.

Babel Street — Location Data & Social Media Surveillance for ICE

Babel Street sells ICE location tracking (Locate X) and social media monitoring (Babel X) using ad-tech data harvested from phone apps. No warrant required.

BI Incorporated

BI Incorporated (GEO Group subsidiary) runs ICE's ankle monitor and SmartLINK surveillance program for 180,000+ people, plus a $121M skip-tracing contract to hunt non-compliant targets.

Brian Gootkin — Simultaneously U.S. Marshal AND Montana Corrections Director

Christopher D. Danley — Interior Dept Advisor Actively Trading GEO Group Stock

Clark Minor — HHS CIO with $1M-$5M Palantir Holdings, Former Palantir Employee

Read the Reporting

The investigation behind the data

This site is the data layer for an ongoing investigation by The RAMM. The reporting traces the detention pipeline from consultant pitch decks to commission votes to warehouse purchases — and names the people profiting.

Read "The Detention Architecture" →

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