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As of April 2025, the Nevada Southern Detention Center, located in Pahrump, exceeded its contractual capacity with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) by more than 40 people per day, according to data obtained by Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC). The facility — which houses a mix of detainees from ICE, the Federal Bureau of Prisons and the U.S. Marshals and can hold up to 1,064 people overall — is only contracted to hold a maximum of 250 ICE detainees per day.
At its peak this fiscal year, the center had exceeded its ICE capacity by more than 200 at 462, making it among the 10 most-overcrowded immigration facilities out of the nation's 180 ICE detention centers, according to TRAC.
Contractual capacity measures the number of detainees a private prison agrees to hold — so it doesn’t necessarily mean an entire building is physically crowded. ICE also doesn’t release capacity figures in real time, so TRACs data lags behind current conditions. And TRAC’s latest measure showed that across all facilities nationwide, ICE is only using about 76 percent of its contractual capacity.
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