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The nonprofit Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) found that on the night of April 13, ICE’s contractual capacity nationally was 62,913 — that’s the total number of available beds at 181 authorized detention facilities with which the agency had agreements to house migrants. Nationally, ICE held 48,056 migrants in detention that night, meaning its utilization of beds was just 3 out of 4, or 76%.
But 45 of the 181 facilities exceeded their contractual capacity that night: eight of these facilities exceeded their contractual capacity by at least 100 detainees; 24 exceeded the contract by between 10 to 100 detainees, and the remaining 13 facilities exceeded the contractual capacity by fewer than 10 people, according to the report released Tuesday by TRAC.
Thirty of the facilities with population counts exceeding capacity that night were county jails but only one county jail — in Brazil, Indiana — exceeded capacity by 100 detainees, the report says.
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