As of mid-2025, ICE maintains a largely outsourced detention system, with a total contracted capacity of approximately 62,913 beds. These fall into three main categories: privately run detention centers, local and state jails operating under intergovernmental agreements, and a small set of federally owned and ICE-controlled service processing centers.
Privately operated Contract Detention Facilities (CDFs): Run by corporations such as GEO Group and CoreCivic, an estimated 100 to 130 facilities and housing roughly 54,000 to 57,000 beds—nearly 90% of ICE’s total detention capacity.
State and local jails, typically county jails: Around 200 to 240 jails under contract, only a subset houses large numbers of detainees on a regular basis. An estimated 6,900 to 7,600 beds, or approximately 11% of total capacity.
Federally owned Service Processing Centers (SPCs): eight, including those in El Paso, Miami (Krome), and Batavia, New York. Some are operated by private contractors. An estimated 3,100 to 6,300 beds, or around 5–10% of the national detention capacity.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act provides funding to double capacity by close 116,000. Geo Group and Core Logic today each control about 65,000 prison beds, suggesting that about 40% of their beds are dedicated to ICE. Major expansion of prison capacity to service ICE will most likely go to these companies.