Mapping U.S. Immigration Detention

Freedom for Immigrants’ interactive detention map sheds light on the scope and growth of immigration detention, helping impacted individuals and local communities find resources and understand the impact of detention on their neighborhoods, cities, states, and the country as a whole. On this page, you will find two different maps. The first one offers a comprehensive look at the history of immigration detention, funding sources, and resources available in each location. The second map provides real-time statistics.

View interactive detention map
View real-time statistics map
 

Interactive detention map

How to use the map

Advocates and policymakers can use these tools to make changes in their communities. For more information, check out the #DONEwithDetention map resource as a guide. In addition to the map, Freedom for Immigrants has created informational briefings on immigration prisons and jails by Congressional district.

The map is divided into 8 categories showing:

  • An overview of the current landscape of immigration prisons and jails, including the number of facilities, the location of Section 287(g) agreements and ICE field offices;

  • A search engine that enables you to compare and contrast detention in your Congressional district, such as identifying which detention facilities are located near you

  • The growth of immigration detention over time

  • The number of people currently in ICE detention, organized by state, and the estimated bed capacity

  • The companies and government entities that contract with ICE, as well as the visualization of immigration bond statistics 

  • A layout of the immigration court system

  • Legal and financial resources, such as bond funds, available for those suffering inside detention

  • A compilation of Freedom for Immigrants’ programs, reports and resources, including monitoring reports, our network of visitation groups and other important data.

You can check and uncheck subcategories to overlay them on the map. To learn more about each subcategory, hover over it. If you click on a marker on the map, a window will pop up and display the corresponding information. You can also use the search engine next to the zoom function to identify specific information. This work is supported by a Scholar-Activist Project Award from the Antipode Foundation.

Note: For best results the following are recommended:

  • Screen resolution of at least 1280x720 is recommended. (A mobile phone screen is too small)

  • Either the Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome web browser (Both are free downloads)

 

real-time statistics

What you can find with this map:

1) Name of Detention Center

2) Address

3) Phone numbers for all active facilities, updated monthly, nationwide

4) Type of Detention Center (BOP -Federal Bureau of Prisons, DIGSA - Typically Privately operated under State/Fed Contracts, GSA - Pub or Private, often pre-trial, SPS-Govt Owned Service Processing Center, USMS-US Marshalls)

5) Total persons held at each site, updated monthly

6) Average length of stay (in number of days)

7) Reported gender of detainee (DHS allows only “M” or “F” self-reports, a recent policy change)

8) Non-criminal persons by percentage of total

Created with public data current as of 09/26/2025. Each color reflects a new month - October’s update is purple.

This interactive map is a freely run resource and intended to increase the transparency of available data for community use. Map & layer data: courtesy of ajkim. FMI about the structure and accuracy of publicly released datasets see below.

A comparison of past and current DHS data tells us that in Dec 2024 there were about 116 detention sites open. By Oct 2025, around 231 are back in operation across the U.S, not including local or temporary holding sites such as jails. Here are directions to all the ones nearest you: Interact with the Map. Colored zones reflect the rough boundaries of “AORs” or “Areas of Responsibility under ICE enforcement and refers to combinations of states/or partial states.

Overall, >60 new detention centers re-opened since Jan 2025, with an avg increase in >10k daily detainees. In July, the first Juvenile Facility briefly re-opened and 60 children were detained at Northwestern Juvenile Detention Center located at 145 Ft. Collier Road, Winchester, VA. According to recent news, CoreCivic managed South Texas Detention Center in Dilley, TX has extended its contract through March 2030 and will house children and families again. As the administration now seeks to dissolve the Flores Agreement that mandated safer conditions and shorter detentions for children, it will be important to track re-openings of family facilities - detention of families has been confirmed at two facilities in TX.

Additional Resources:

For information on finding friends or family members, see this guide created by the National Immigrant Law Center: How to Locate A Disappeared Person. If you know the person’s “A-number” you can search for individuals using the Online Detainee Locator System.

See more on historic detention trends at the Vera Institute. For deeper dives into the datasets, please refer to the Deportation Data Project and the Interval ADP Update. To add anonymously to crowdsourced data on reported raids, click here: People over Papers.

Acknowledgements:

Thank you to an all volunteer team of activists, advocates, and researchers helping to keep this map updated on a monthly basis. Shoutout to: Rosaria Bridges, Hari Chipiri, Dan LaSusa, Gabby Low, Sarah Riley, Emma Brice (AOR shapefile), Sean Malinis, and many others.