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South Texas Family Residential Center

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Verified 28 May 2026
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Background

The South Texas Family Residential Center (also called Dilley Immigration Processing Center) is an immigrant detention center in Dilley, Texas. First opened in December 2014, it has a capacity of 2,400 and is intended to detain mainly women and children from Central America. United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) closed the detention center in June 2024, citing cost savings to add more beds in other facilities as the Biden administration implemented new border restrictions. It reopened the following year, in 2025. In 2025, CoreCivic announced a new contract with ICE to reopen the facility as the Dilley Immigration Processing Center.

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Capacity

Current population

Occupancy

Year opened

2014

Operational

Facility profile

Operator

CoreCivic

Population held

Mixed/unknown

Opened

2014

Region

TX

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

1925 West Highway 85, Dilley 78017

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Data completeness

34%

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