Western Region Detention Facility - GEO

Custody/Security Info

Western Region Detention Facility - GEO is a maximum security facility located in San Diego, CA, a high custody immigration facility covering San Diego and surrounding counties in California. The property has a reinforced perimeter with layers and rows of razor wire. Inmates are either housed in a cell on their own or with another inmate. Maximum security prisons normally house the most serious offenders, but ICE and Immigration Enforcement used the facility for alien felonies awaiting trial or deportation. The safety of inmates is closely monitored, with a large staff to inmate ratio, with 24/7 controlled movements around all areas of the facility. This prison is maintained behind heavy-duty perimeters, including walls and reinforced fences. Maximum security houses their inmates in single or multiple cell housing. There are cameras situated throughout the buildings for close monitoring of inmate actions. Inmates secured in high-security facilities are not trusted to work out in the field in any community programs. This prison has more leniency for recreation, education, and communication with the outside world.

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Facility Type

Western Region Detention Facility - GEO is detention facility owned by private prison company to handle the intake, and housing of offenders for the San Diego County Sheriff, the State of California, Bureau of Prisons, the US Marshal Service and Immigration (ICE). This regional operation is structured to implement superior quality controls to the standards set by the jurisdiction whose inmates are being held. The correctional facility offers a full complement of high-quality services, including secure custody services, academic and vocational programming, secure transportation service, correctional health, and mental health care.

The main benefit of the contracting of prisons to private operators is that it can save money. The end goal is to house prisoners in an attempt to rehabilitate them or remove them from the streets. The corporation's end goal is to profit from anything they deal in. In order to make money as a private prison, they receive a stipend from the government.