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Broward Transitional Center
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Broward Transitional Center is a federal prison located in Broward County, Florida. Rated capacity: 700. Reported population: 573. Data sourced from the HIFLD Prison Boundaries open dataset.
Background
The Broward Transitional Center (BTC) is a for-profit detention center located in Pompano Beach, Florida. It is owned and operated by the GEO Group under a twenty-million-dollar plus annual contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), purposed to hold alleged illegal immigrants classified as "non-criminal and low security detainees." Twenty-six members of Congress, including Ted Deutsch, Alcee Hastings and Frederica Wilson, signed a letter to ICE Director John T. Morton, urging a âcase-by-caseâ review of each individual detainee placed there, and an investigation of the cases detainees cited at Broward Transitional Center after allegations of lack of sufficient medical care for undocumented detainees. This included a detainee who underwent ovarian surgery and was locked back up in her cell the same day, still bleeding, and a man who urinated blood for days but was prevented from seeing a doctor. Rep. Luis Gutierrez said that after hearing cases of low-priority with serious health issues failing to receive adequate attention, he signed Rep.
Source: Wikipedia article lead, CC-BY-SA.
Capacity
700
Current population
573
Occupancy
82%
Year opened
—
Operational
Figures from official sources · verified 6 Jul 2026 · methodology
Facility profile
Operator
Federal Bureau of PrisonsPopulation held
mixed
Opened
—
Region
Florida
Security level
—
Death-row facility
No
Conditions
No conditions summary available yet.
Visiting
No visiting information available.
Mailing
No mailing information available.
Practical info
Contact the operator's website for inmate-specific procedures.
Known issues
No major issues documented in our database.
Contact & address
Conditions Risk Score
Derived signal — not a judgement. How it's calculated
0/100
Low concern0/100
- Overcrowding
- 0/30
- Oversight reports
- 0/30
- Structural flags
- 0/15
- Death signals
- 0/15
- Conditions text
- 0/10
This facility scores 0. The national average across 7,437 scored United States facilities is 2 — 2 points below national average.
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Compared to other facilities in United States
7436 peersOccupancythis: 82% · peers avg: 93% (12%)
Capacity (beds)this: 700 · peers avg: 547 (+28%)
Data completeness
66%How many of our profile fields are populated. We surface this so families and researchers know the limits.
Sources
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries
- HIFLD dataset query
- List of immigrant detention sites in the United States — Wikipedia
- Broward Transitional Center
- Wikipedia — Wikimedia Foundation
- HIFLD Prison Boundaries — US Department of Homeland Security â HIFLD Open Data
- OpenStreetMap — OpenStreetMap Contributors
- Wikidata — Wikimedia Foundation
- List of immigrant detention sites in the United States — Wikipedia — Wikipedia / U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
- Wikidata (Q14685834)
- Wikipedia
- See /data-sources for our overall methodology.
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APA
World Prisons. (2026). Broward Transitional Center. Retrieved July 21, 2026, from https://worldprisons.com/prisons/broward-transitional-center
Chicago
"Broward Transitional Center." World Prisons. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://worldprisons.com/prisons/broward-transitional-center.
BibTeX
@misc{worldprisons-broward-transitional-center,
author = {{World Prisons}},
title = {Broward Transitional Center},
year = {2026},
url = {https://worldprisons.com/prisons/broward-transitional-center},
urldate = {2026-07-21}
}