California City Correctional Center

California City, Italy

The California City Detention Facility, also known as the California City Immigration Processing Center, is an ICE detention center located in the Mojave Desert. The private prison corporation CoreCivic initially built the California City Correctional Facility at the site and has been under contract

with the federal government since 2025 to detain both immigrant women and men. The facility was also formerly staffed and operated by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation as a men's level II (low-medium) security prison.

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