ICE Detention Facilities with EPA Facility Registry Service (FRS) IDs 2020, 2023

This dataset integrates data from multiple publicly available sources to enhance the social and environmental analytical potential of the 2017 and 2020 HIFLD prison boundaries datasets. The HIFLD prison boundary feature class contains secure detention facilities. These facilities range in jurisdiction from federal (excluding military) to local governments. This feature class’s attribution describes many physical and social characteristics of detention facilities in the United States and some of its territories. The attribution for this feature class was populated by open source search methodologies from authoritative sources. We subset this large dataset to focus solely on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facilities. ICE contracts with a wide variety of detention centers to house people they are detaining. As a result there is both some significant flux in contracts for rented beds as well as many larger dedicated ICE detention facilities that do not change over the time period we have been collecting this data. We identified ICE detention facilities via their website (https://www.ice.gov/detention-facilities) and matched them, where possible, to facilities in the HIFLD prison boundary dataset. Additionally, we have manually coded the corresponding EPA Facility Registry Service (FRS) ID number to every facility for which we could find a reasonable match (source: https://www.epa.gov/frs/frs-facilities-state-single-file-csv-download). This FRS ID number enables finding corresponding environmental permits, inspections, violations, and enforcement actions. Purpose: This feature class contains ICE detention facilities with EPA FRS ID and additional socially relevant variables for research on the environmental injustices of mass incarceration by Carceral Ecologies.