The Willacy County Regional Detention Center aka the Willacy Detention Center is a privately owned prison for men located in Raymondville,

Willacy County, Texas Willacy County is a county in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, its population was 20,164. Its county seat is Raymondville. The county was created in 1911 and organized the next year. Willacy County comprises the Raymondville m ...

, operated by

Management and Training Corporation Management & Training Corporation or MTC is a contractor that manages private prisons and United States Job Corps centers, based in Centerville, Utah. MTC's core businesses are corrections, education and training, MTC medical, and economic & soci ...

(MTC) under contract with the

U.S. Marshal Service The United States Marshals Service (USMS) is a federal law enforcement agency in the United States. The USMS is a bureau within the U.S. Department of Justice, operating under the direction of the Attorney General, but serves as the enforcem ...

. The prison was originally built in 2003 and has an official capacity of 586 federal detainees. There have been numerous reports of sexual assault and physical assault on detainees held at Willacy. In 2009, over 900 grievances were filed by detainees. The federal contract with MTC will end in September 2021. The country is considering operating the facility by itself, which would still be permitted under federal restrictions. This facility is adjacent to two other private prison sites: the Willacy County Correctional Center, formerly operated by the

for the federal government and closed in 2015, and the

Willacy County State Jail The Willacy County State Jail is a privately owned medium-security prison for men located in Raymondville, Willacy County, Texas, operated by Corrections Corporation of America under contract with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. CCA ha ...

, operated by the

Corrections Corporation of America CoreCivic, formerly the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), is a company that owns and manages private prisons and detention centers and operates others on a concession basis. Co-founded in 1983 in Nashville, Tennessee by Thomas W. Beasle ...

through August 2017, under contract with the state of Texas, and subsequently by the LaSalle Corrections corporation.

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