The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency operates a network of 170 unofficial detention sites around the country, called “hold rooms,” according to agency data obtained via the Freedom of Information Act. Located in warehouses, strip malls, office parks, and ICE substations, the facilities are held to different standards than the agency’s official detention facilities. They are not permitted to contain beds, and are not required to contain toilets. Though agency policy limits the time a detainee can be kept in a hold room to 72 hours, federal data show thousands of violations of that rule, including many stays lasting weeks or months at a time. 

The Colorado Times Recorder is reporting for the first time comprehensive information, including addresses, on all 170 hold rooms and the more than 140,000 detainees held in them between January and October of last year.

Though hold rooms have been used by ICE since at least 2011 as temporary facilities to house detainees awaiting transport to official detention centers, federal data obtained by the Deportation Data Project and analyzed by the Colorado Times Recorder show a dramatic expansion of their use coinciding with Donald Trump’s return to the presidency. Until last June, the time limit for hold room detentions was 12 hours; the Trump administration upped the limit to 72 hours soon after Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Advisor Stephen Miller and then-DHS Secretary Kristi Noem ordered ICE to triple its arrest quota to 3,000 per day.

Now, in violation of the agency’s own rules, hold rooms increasingly serve as unofficial, undisclosed long-term detention facilities.

The address provided for the hold room in Salisbury, Maryland – SALHOLD

Available data on the detainees held in these facilities extends only through October 2025, leaving us blind to changes or developments in detention patterns over the last five months. Judging by the rate of hold-room detentions during the first 10 months of the second Trump administration, we estimate that at least 60,000 people, in addition to the 140,000 accounted for in this data, were detained in hold rooms at some point during those months. Every facility included in our analysis was in use during the time period covered by the data; given the increase in detention activity, most likely still are.

The 170 hold rooms are spread out across every U.S. state except for West Virginia, as well as Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Texas has the largest number of hold rooms, at 22. Of the 170 facilities, 130 are located in ICE field offices or suboffices. These offices, where immigrants are often asked to report for appointments with immigration authorities, are not disclosed in ICE records or elsewhere as long-term detention facilities, despite data showing many of them holding detainees for weeks at a time. 37 of the facilities held detainees for longer than a month. According to the data, one detainee endured a 292-day stay in the Newark hold room (“NEWHOLD,” as referenced in ICE records, which uses a unique seven-letter code for each hold room).

The address provided for the hold room in Springfield, Missouri – SPGHOLD

Two weeks ago, we published an exposé on the nine hold rooms that held more than 2,800 Colorado detainees last year, making the Colorado Times Recorder one of the first outlets in the nation to report anything about the secretive detention facilities. The attention generated from that article, including from members of Congress and Colorado state lawmakers, prompted outreach from concerned citizens in other states, asking what we knew about the facilities in their necks of the woods. Our previous reporting also attracted the attention of data scientists who made this nationwide follow-up possible. 

After publishing our initial story, CTR was contacted by organizers with No Concentration Camps in Colorado (NOCCC), a coalition of organizations working to oppose the expansion of ICE operations. NOCCC, whose volunteer membership includes researchers experienced in the statistical analysis of large datasets and the cataloging and navigation of the Department of Homeland Security’s FOIA library, provided the knowledge and expertise necessary to expand upon our previous reporting. With their help, we have been able to list and map all 170 ICE hold rooms nationwide.

Two weeks ago, we reported that the use of Colorado’s ICE hold rooms changed dramatically after Donald Trump returned to the Oval Office, holding more detainees for longer periods of time. Our analysis of the national dataset covering all 170 facilities reveals that those changes are not isolated to Colorado. Nationwide, many more people are being kept in hold rooms under the Trump administration than were before, and violations of the length-of-hold rules have increased sharply.

Between September 2023 and the end of the Biden administration, more than 80,000 individuals were detained in ICE hold rooms nationwide. That number jumped to more than 140,000 between Donald Trump’s inauguration on January 20, 2025, and the end of the dataset in October 2025. On average, the data show 4,700 hold-room detentions per month under Biden, climbing to more than 14,000 per month under Trump. 

During Biden’s last 16 months in office, detainee book-in and book-out times show 281 total detentions exceeding 72 hours (though the rule at the time limited holds to 12 hours). During Donald Trump’s first nine and a half months back in office, the number of detentions exceeding 72 hours increased from 281 to 5,011. 

Federal data also reveal that Colorado’s hold rooms are not alone in detaining children and the elderly. Since Trump’s return to office, the majority of the hold rooms nationwide (109 of 170) have held at least one child for a period of time. Some of the rooms have held many more. The hold rooms in New York (NYCHOLD) and Phoenix (PHOHOLD), for instance, held more children than any others in the nation during the period covered by the data. 927 children were held at the New York facility, located on the 9th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, while 749 were held at the Phoenix facility, located in a federal building on North Central Avenue.

When we reported on the use of ICE hold rooms in Colorado, we noted that the oldest detainee held at the Denver hold room between January and October 2025 was a 91-year-old man. The national dataset reveals that the elderly detainee in Denver was actually the oldest resident of any hold room in the nation during that period, followed by an 88-year-old.

The address provided for the Helena, Montana hold room – HELHOLD

The hold room with the most violations in the nation, meanwhile, appears to be the Krome hold room (KROHOLD), located at a major ICE processing facility outside Miami. KROHOLD registered more than 1,300 violations of the 72-hour-hold limit last year. The Los Angeles hold room (LOSHOLD) placed second in that category, with 681 violations during the same time period.

The busiest hold room in the nation during the period covered by the Deportation Data Project dataset was the one located in Dallas (DALHOLD), which registered 13,361 detainees across the period. It was followed by the Montgomery, TX, hold room (MTGHOLD) with 13,212 detainees, and KROHOLD, which saw 11,758 detainees across the period.

As with the Colorado hold rooms we reported on two weeks ago, the facilities with hold rooms nationwide appear to vary dramatically in quality, from cells ensconced in glass-and-steel federal buildings to those kept in windowless warehouses; from Federal Plaza in lower Manhattan to shoddy structures hugging regional airports.

In Harrisonburg, Virginia, the address now listed as an ICE hold room appears to have, at one point, housed a Spanish-language-learning school for children. On its website, the school advertised the site as “a safe and inclusive environment that values the Spanish Language and Culture, and where children from different language backgrounds develop Spanish skills through play.”

Below, we have included a map marking each of these facilities, in hopes of providing local journalists, organizations, and concerned citizens with information about the hold rooms operating closest to them. We have also included a list of each hold room broken down by state so that readers and researchers in each locale can more easily find the facilities near where they live.

In addition to naming, listing, and mapping all 170 hold rooms, we also extracted critical detainee information for each – like we did in our initial reporting on the Colorado facilities – including the youngest and oldest detainees held at each facility, the longest stay at each facility, and how many times the facility has violated the 72-hour hold rule. Each pin on the map embedded in this article contains these statistics for each specific facility. We have also included the seven-letter facility codes for each facility, to help other researchers search the Deportation Data Project’s releases for facility-specific data.

Though the agency can and does relocate facilities, such as the Denver hold room, each facility below is presented with the name, facility code, and address associated with it in the most recently available sources of federal data. Facility locations may also be in flux due to the increase in states passing legislation to limit local law enforcement cooperation with ICE, such as Maryland, where Gov. Wes Moore signed just such a law last month.

At the bottom of this piece, we have included a note on the sources of federal data we relied on for this reporting (and some of the quirks therein), as well as a link to a GitHub repository containing the original datasets.

ALASKA

  • Anchorage Sub-Office Hold Room | ANCHOLD | 620 East 10th Avenue, Anchorage, AK 99501

ALABAMA

  • Mobile Holdroom | MOAHOLD | 900 Western America Circle, Mobile, AL 36609
  • Etowah Ero Hold Room | ETWHOLD | 800 Forrest Avenue 3rd Floor, Gadsden, AL 35901
  • Birmingham Hold Room | BHMHOLD | 107 Frankfurt Circle, Birmingham, AL 35211

ARKANSAS

  • Texarkana Holdroom | TXAHOLD | 3822 Airport Plaza, Texarkana, AR 71854
  • Little Rock Hold Room | LRAHOLD | 4501 E Roosevelt Road, Little Rock, AR 72206
  • Fort Smith Holdroom | FSAHOLD | 4991 Old Greenwood Road, Fort Smith, AR 72903
  • Fayetteville Hold Room | FAYHOLD | 2887 N. Point Circle, Fayetteville, AR 72701

ARIZONA

  • Yuma Holdroom | YUMHOLD | 3911 S Pico Ave., Yuma, AZ 85365
  • Tucson Ins Hold Room | TUCHOLD | 6431 South Country Club Road, Tucson, AZ 85706
  • Phoenix Dist Office | PHOHOLD | 2035 N. Central Avenue, Phoenix, AZ 85004
  • Az Rem Op Coord Center (Arocc) | IWAHOLD | 6335 South Downwind, Suite 104, Mesa, AZ 85212

CALIFORNIA

  • Westminster Custody | WESHOLD | 501 The City Dr S, Orange, CA
  • Ventura Custody Case | VENHOLD | 321 Cortez Circle, Camarillo, CA 93012
  • Snj Hold Room | SNJHOLD | 603 San Juan Avenue, First Floor, Stockton, CA 95203
  • SND District Staging | SNDHOLD | 880 Front Street, Suite 2242, San Diego, CA 92101
  • Santa Maria Sub Office Ero | SMAHOLD | 740 West Century Street, Suite A, Santa Maria, CA 93455
  • Sfr Hold Room | SFRHOLD | 630 Sansome Street 5th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94111
  • San Bernardino Hold Room | SBDHOLD | 655 West Rialto Avenue, San Bernardino, CA 92410
  • Sacramento Hold | SACHOLD | 650 Capitol Mall Room I-120, Sacramento, CA 95814
  • Santa Ana Dro Holdroom | SAAHOLD | 34 Civic Center Plaza Room 1027, Santa Ana, CA 92701
  • Redding Hold Room | REDHOLD | 443 Redcliff Drive, Redding, CA 96002
  • Los Cust Case | LOSHOLD | 300 N. Los Angeles Street Room B17, Los Angeles, CA 90012
  • Imperial Sub Office Hold Room | IMPHOLD | 2051 North Waterman Avenue, Suite 101, El Centro, CA 92243
  • Fresno Holdroom | FREHOLD | 733 L Street, Fresno, CA 93721
    Bakerfield Hold | BKLHOLD | 800 Truxtun Avenue, Bakersfield, CA 93301

COLORADO

  • Pueblo Holdroom | PUEHOLD | 935 Highway 67, Florence, CO 81226
  • Glenwood Springs Holdroom | GSCHOLD | 100 Midland Avenue, Suite 210, Glenwood Springs, CO 81601
  • Grand Junction Holdroom | GJCHOLD | 569 S. Commercial Drive, Grand Junction, CO 81505
  • Frederick Holdroom | FRDHOLD | 3770 Puritan Way Unit J, Frederick, CO 80516
  • Durango Holdroom | DURHOLD | 32 Sheppard Drive, Durango, CO 81303
  • Denver Hold Room | DENHOLD | 12445 East Caley Avenue, Centennial, CO 80111
  • Colo Springs Den Hsi Hold | CSDHOLD | 2739 E Las Vegas St, Colorado Springs, CO 80906
  • Craig Holdroom | CRGHOLD | 466 Tucker Street, Craig, CO 81626
  • Alamosa Holdroom | ALMHOLD | 1921 State Street, Alamosa, CO 81101

CONNECTICUT

  • Hartford Office | HARHOLD | 450 Main Street, Hartford, CT 6103

DELAWARE

  • Dover Holdroom | DVDHOLD | 210 Beiser Boulevard, Dover, DE 19904

FLORIDA

  • Tampa Hold Room | TAMHOLD | 5524 West Cypress Street, Tampa, FL 33607
  • Tallahassee Hold Room | TALHOLD | 1530 Commonwealth Business Drive, Tallahassee, FL 32303
  • Stuart Hold Room | STUHOLD | 3500 SE Commerce Ave, Stuart, FL 34997
  • Orlando Hold Room | ORLHOLD | 9495 Delegates Drive, Orlando, FL 32837
  • Miami (Miramar) Hold Room | MIAHOLD | 2805 SW 145th Avenue, Miramar, FL 33027
  • Krome Hold Room | KROHOLD | 18201 SW 12th Street, Miami, FL 33194
    Jacksonville Sub-Office | JAXHOLD | 13077 Veveras Drive, Jacksonville, FL 32258
  • Fort Myers Ero Holdroom | FMYHOLD | 8860 Salrose Lane, Fort Myers, FL 33912

GEORGIA

  • Atlanta Dist. Hold Rm | ATLHOLD | 180 Ted Turner Drive, SW, Atlanta, GA 30303

HAWAII

  • ERO Honolulu Sub-Office Hold Room | HHWHOLD | 595 Ala Moana Boulevard, Honolulu, HI 96813

IOWA

  • Sioux City Hold Room | SXCHOLD | 3301 Singing Hills Boulevard, Suite B, Sioux City, IA 51106
  • Des Moines Hold Room | DSMHOLD | 210 Walnut St. Suite 359, Des Moines, IA 50309
  • Cedar Rapids Hold Room | CRIHOLD | 3351 Square D Drive SW, Cedar Rapids, IA 52404

IDAHO

  • Twin Falls Hold Room | TFIHOLD | 212 Deere Street, Twin Falls, ID 83301
  • Idaho Falls Hold Room | IFIHOLD | 2075 N Boulevard, Idaho Falls, ID 83402
  • Boise Hold Room | BOIHOLD | 1185 S. Vinnell Way, Boise, ID 83709

ILLINOIS

  • Rock Island Hold Room | RIIHOLD | 211 19th Street, Rock Island, IL 61201
  • Chicago Hold Room | CHIHOLD | 101 Ida B. Wells Drive 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60605
  • Broadview Service Staging | BSAHOLD | 1930 Beach Street, Broadview, IL 60155

INDIANA

  • Indianapolis Hold Room | INPHOLD | 7355 Woodland Drive, Indianapolis, IN 46278, Indianapolis, IN

KANSAS

  • Wichita Holdroom | WICHOLD | 555 North Woodlawn Street Building 4, Suite 160, Wichita, KS 67208

KENTUCKY

  • Louisville Hold Room | LOUHOLD | 654 South 7th Street, Louisville, KY 40203
  • Bowling Green Hold Room | BLGHOLD | 1013 Morgan Town Road, Bowling Green, KY 42101

LOUISIANA

  • Shreveport Hold Room | VVSHOLD | 400 Texas Street, Shreveport, LA 0
  • Oakdale Holding Room | OAKHOLD | 1900 E Whatley Rd, Oakdale, LA 71463
  • New Orleans Hold Room | NOLHOLD | 181 James Drive W, Saint Rose, LA 70087

MASSACHUSETTS

  • Boston Holdroom | BOSHOLD | 1000 District Avenue, Burlington, MA 1803

MARYLAND

  • Salisbury Hold Room | SALHOLD | 119 W. Naylor Mill Road Suite 11, Salisbury, MD 21801
  • Baltimore Hold Room | BALHOLD | 31 Hopkins Plaza 6th Floor, Baltimore, MD 21201

MAINE

  • Portland, ME Holdroom | POMHOLD | 40 Manson Libby Road, Suite 101, Scarborough, ME 4074

MICHIGAN

  • Grand Rapids Holdroom | GRMHOLD | 517 Ottawa Ave NW, Grand Rapids, MI 49503
  • Detroit Holdroom | DETHOLD | 260 Mt. Elliott, Detroit, MI 48207

MINNESOTA

  • Bishop Henry Whipple Fed Bldg | SPMHOLD | 1 Federal Drive, Suite 1601, Fort Snelling, MN 55111
  • Duluth Hold Room | DULHOLD | 4431 Endeavor Drive, Duluth, MN 55811

MISSOURI

  • St. Louis Holdroom | STLHOLD | 1222 Spruce Street Room 100, St. Louis, MO 63103
  • ERO Hold Room (Springfield, MO) | SPGHOLD | 4715 West Junction Street, Springfield, MO 65802
  • Kansas City Holdroom | KANHOLD | 11125 N. Ambassador Drive, Suite 100, Kansas City, MO 64153

MISSISSIPPI

  • Jackson MS Hold Room | JAKHOLD | 202 Metroplex Drive, Pearl, MS 39208

MONTANA

  • Helena District Custody | HELHOLD | 2800 Skyway Drive, Helena, MT 59602
  • Billings Hold Room | BILHOLD | 2900 4th Avenue, Suite 205, Billings, MT 59101

NORTH CAROLINA

  • Raleigh Hold Room | RDUHOLD | 140 Centrewest Court, Cary, NC 27513
  • Hendersonville Hold Room | HENHOLD | 518 6th Avenue West , Hendersonville, NC 28739
  • Charlotte Hold Room | CLTHOLD | 6130 Tyvola Centre Drive, Charlotte, NC 28217

NORTH DAKOTA

  • Grand Forks Hold Room | GRFHOLD | 124 N. 6th Street, Grand Forks, ND 58203

NEBRASKA

  • Omaha FO Hold | OMAHOLD | 1717 Ave H, Omaha, NE 68110
  • North Platte Hold Room | NRPHOLD | 300 E. 3rd Street Suite 110, North Platte, NE 69101

NEW HAMPSHIRE

  • Manchester Holdroom | MANHOLD | 275 Chestnut Street, Manchester, NH 3101

NEW JERSEY

  • New/INS OS Hold Room | NEWHOLD | 970 Broad Street 11th Floor, Newark, NJ 7102
  • Mount Laurel Hold Room | MLJHOLD | 532 Fellowship Road, Suite A, Mount Laurel, NJ 8054

NEW MEXICO

  • Roswell Hold Room | RSWHOLD | 500 N. Richardson Avenue, Roswell, NM 88201
  • Las Cruces Hold Room | LASHOLD | 1140 Commerce Drive Ste. B, Las Cruces, NM 88011
  • Albuquerque Hold Room | ABQHOLD | 5441 Watson Drive South East, Albuquerque, NM 87106

NEVADA

  • Reno Hold Room | RENHOLD | 6999 Sierra Center Parkway, Reno, NV 89511
  • Las Vegas Hold Room | LVGHOLD | 501 S. Las Vegas Boulevard Suite 100, Las Vegas, NV 89101

NEW YORK

  • Syracuse Hold Room | SYRHOLD | 401 S. Salina Street, Suite 108, Syracuse, NY 13202
  • NYC Hold Room | NYCHOLD | 26 Federal Plaza 9th Floor, Suite 9-110, New York, NY 10278
  • Newburgh Holding | NBGHOLD | 15 Governor Drive, Newburgh, NY 12550
  • Batavia Command Center Holdroom | CMDHOLD | 4250 Federal Drive, Batavia, NY 14020
  • Central Islip Hold Room | CIPHOLD | 100 Federal Plaza, Central Islip, NY 11722
  • Champlain Hold Room | CHMHOLD | 237 West Service Road Room CB 107, Unit 8, Champlain, NY 12919
  • Buffalo Usbp Hold Room | CBPHOLD | 300 Airborne Pkwy W #300, Cheektowaga, NY 14225
  • Buffalo Hold Room | BUFHOLD | 250 Delaware Avenue 7th Floor, Buffalo, NY 14202
  • Albany Holdroom | ALBHOLD | 11 Old Stonebreak Road, Ballston Spa, NY 12020

OHIO

  • Columbus Holdroom | CLMHOLD | 675 Brooksedge Boulevard, Westerville, OH 43081
  • Cleveland Hold Room | CLEHOLD | 925 Keynote Circle, Brooklyn Heights, OH 44131
  • Cincinnati Holdroom | CINHOLD | 9875 Redhill Drive, Blue Ash, OH 45242

OKLAHOMA

  • Tulsa Hold Room | TULHOLD | 300 N Denver St, Tulsa, OK 74103
  • Oklahoma City Hold Room | OKCHOLD | 1220 Sovereign Row, Oklahoma City, OK 73108

OREGON

  • Portland District Office | POOHOLD | 4310 S Macadam Avenue, Suite 300, Portland, OR 97239
  • Medford Sub-Office | MEDHOLD | 3715 International Way, Medford, OR 97504
  • Eugene Holdroom | EUGHOLD | 211 East 7th Avenue, Suite 120, Eugene, OR 97401

PENNSYLVANIA

  • York Hold Room | YRKHOLD | 1605 Clugston Road, York, PA 17404
    Williamsport Hold Room | WPOHOLD | 2851 S Reach Rd, Williamsport, PA 17701
  • Pike County ERO Hold Room | PKEHOLD | 175 Pike County Blvd, Lord’s Valley, PA 18428
  • Pittsburgh Holdroom | PITHOLD | 3000 Sidney Street, Suite 100, Pittsburgh, PA 15203
  • Phi District Office | PHIHOLD | 114 North 8th Street 3rd Floor, Philadelphia, PA 19107

RHODE ISLAND

  • Prohold | PROHOLD | 443 Jefferson Blvd, North Suite, Warwick, RI 2886

SOUTH CAROLINA

  • Greer Hold Room | GRRHOLD | 142-F West Phillips Road, Greer, SC 29650
  • Columbia, Sc Holdroom | COAHOLD | 1835 Assembly Street, Suite 1569, Columbia, SC 29201
  • Charleston, Sc Hold Room | CHLHOLD | 3950 Faber Place Drive, North Charleston, SC 29405

SOUTH DAKOTA

  • Sioux Falls Hold Room | SFDHOLD | 2708 N. 1st Avenue, Sioux Falls, SD 57104
  • Rapid City Hold Room | RPCHOLD | 1516 Fountain Plaza Drive, Rapid City, SD 57702

TENNESSEE

  • Nashville Hold Room | NSVHOLD | 501 Brick Church Park Drive, Nashville, TN 37207
  • Memphis Hold Room | MEMHOLD | 2833 Business Park Drive, Building 1, Memphis, TN 38118
  • Knoxville Hold Room | KNXHOLD | 324 Prosperity Drive, Knoxville, TN 37923
  • Chattanooga Hold Room | CNGHOLD | 2150 Stein Drive, Chattanooga, TN 37421

TEXAS

  • Waco Dro Hold Room | WCTHOLD | 800 Franklin Avenue, Waco, TX 0
    South
  • Texas/Pearsall Hold Room | STDHOLD | 566 Veterans Dr, Pearsall, TX 78061
  • San Antonio Dro Hold Room | SNAHOLD | 3523 Crosspoint Drive, San Antonio, TX 78217
  • San Angelo Holdroom | SAGHOLD | 4382 N US Hwy 277, San Angelo, TX 76905
  • Prairieland Suboffice Hold Room | PRLHOLD | 1209 Sunflower Ln, Alvarado, TX 76009
  • Pdn Hold Room | PDNHOLD | 2401 Dodson Avenue, Del Rio, TX 78840
  • Pecos Hold Room | PCSHOLD | 67 S. Frontage IH-20W, Pecos, TX 79772
  • Montgomery Hold Rm | MTGHOLD | 500 Hilbig Road, Conroe, TX 77301
  • Midland, TX Ero Holdroom | MLDHOLD | 1515 Idlewild Drive, Midland, TX 79703
  • Mcallen Hold Room | MCAHOLD | 2202 Cornerstone Blvd, Edinburg, TX 78539
  • Los Fresnos Hold Room | LSFHOLD | 27991 Buena Vista Blvd, Los Fresnos, TX 78566
  • Laredo Detention Center Hold Room | LRDHOLD | 500 E. Mann Road, Suite A-3, Laredo, TX 78041
  • Lubbock Hold Room | LBKHOLD | 3502 N Holly Ave, Lubbock, TX 79403
  • Houston FO Holdroom | HOUHOLD | 126 Northpoint Drive, Houston, TX 77060
  • Harlingen Hold Room | HLGHOLD | 1717 Zoy Street, Harlingen, TX 78552
  • Del Rio Dro Hold Room | DLRHOLD | 253 FM 2523, Del Rio, TX 78840
  • Dallas F.O. Hold | DALHOLD | 8101 N. Stemmons Freeway, Dallas, TX 75247
  • Corpus Christi ERO Hold Room | CRPHOLD | 9149 TX-44 , Corpus Christi, TX 78406
  • Big Spring Hold Room | BSCHOLD | 11541 Montana Avenue, Suite E, El Paso, TX 79936
  • Austin Dro Hold Room | AUSHOLD | 500 W 10th St, Austin, TX 78701
  • Athens, TX Hold Room | ATTHOLD | 206 N Murchison St, Athens, TX 75751
  • Amarillo Hold Room | AMTHOLD | 9100 S Georgia St, Amarillo, TX 79118

UTAH

  • Salt Lake City Hold Room | SLCHOLD | 2975 Decker Lake Drive, Suite 100, West Valley City, UT 84119
  • St. George, UT Holdroom | SGUHOLD | 389 N. Industrial Road Suite 4, St. George, UT 84770
  • Provo Hold Room | PRUHOLD | 1793 W. Business Parkway Drive,
  • Orem, UT 84058
    Ogden Hold Room | OGUHOLD | 2487 S. 1620 W Unit E, Ogden, UT 84401

VIRGINIA

  • Washington Field Office | WASHOLD | 14797 Murdock Street, Chantilly, VA 20151
  • Roanoke Sub-Office Hold Room | RMKHOLD | 103 West Main Street, Salem, VA 24153
  • Richmond Sub-Office Hold | RCMHOLD | 9200 Arboretum Parkway, Suite 140, North Chesterfield, VA 23236
  • Norfolk Sub-Office Hold | NORHOLD | 200 Granby Street, Suite 821, Norfolk, VA 23510
  • Lorton, Va Hold Room | LTVHOLD | 8209 Terminal Road, Lorton, VA 22079
  • Harrisonburg Hold Room | HBGHOLD | 263 Neff Ave., Harrisonburg, VA 22801

VERMONT

  • Saint Albans Hold Room | STAHOLD | 64 Gricebrook Road, St. Albans, VT 5478

WASHINGTON

  • Yakima Sub-Office | YAKHOLD | 3701 River Road, Yakima, WA 98902
  • Wenatchee Hold Room | WNTHOLD | 3701 River Road, Yakima, WA 98902
  • Spokane Hold Room | SPOHOLD | 411 W Cataldo Avenue, Spokane, WA 99201
  • Seattle Field Office Hold Room | SEAHOLD | 12500 Tukwila International Boulevard 4th Floor, Seattle, WA 98168
  • Richland Hold Room | RICHOLD | 825 Jadwin Avenue Room G165, Richland, WA 99352
  • Ferndale Hold Room | FDLHOLD | 1431 Sunset Avenue, Ferndale, WA 98248

WISCONSIN

  • Milwaukee Holdroom | MILHOLD | 310 East Knapp Street, Milwaukee, WI 53202

WYOMING

  • Casper Holdroom | CSPHOLD | 7052 Commerce Circle Suite 130, Cheyenne, WY 82007
  • Cheyenne Holdroom | CHYHOLD | 150 E. B Street Room 1014, Casper, WY 82601

TERRITORIES

  • Charlotte Amalie Holdroom | CHAHOLD | 5500 Veterans Drive, Room 248, St Thomas, VI 802
  • San Juan Airport Hold Room | SJUHOLD | Airport Rd, Carolina, PR 979
  • San Juan Sub-Office Hold Room | SAJHOLD | 800 Juan Ponce de Leon Avenue, 12th Floor, San Juan, PR 908
  • Saipain Hold | SAIHOLD | 2 Joeten Center, Gualo Rai, Saipan, MP 96950
  • Guam ERO Hold Room | AGAHOLD | 291 Chalan Pasaheru Suite 100, Tamuning, GU 96913

A Note on Sources

Most of the data underlying this reporting comes from the Deportation Data Project, which obtained the data directly from Immigration & Customs Enforcement via Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) litigation. That data lists 170 hold rooms nationwide, but contains addresses for only 120 of them. (The Project says it intends to publish a full dataset of facilities’ addresses soon.) To fill in the gaps, we drew from other sources of federal data, including ICE’s own FOIA archive – where documents from previous requests are housed – and a document compiled by ICE in 2019 when the agency was seeking a vendor for new cash machines at its facilities. 

We subjected all 170 addresses to additional scrutiny, including web searches and a review of Google StreetView images. Many hold rooms are located in federally owned facilities, such as federal courthouses. Others, however, are located on private property in strip malls, office buildings, and business parks. As a second level of confirmation for the facilities located on private property, the Colorado Times Recorder checked the addresses against a General Services Administration dataset listing more than 7,000 buildings leased by the federal government. Additionally, many of the addresses are confirmed by ICE documents obtained by the ACLU via FOIA. 

Despite being pulled entirely from federal government sources, the data contain small errors that were discovered during our verification processes. Addresses occasionally end with “avenue” instead of “street,” or “circle” instead of “court.” Some hold room addresses listed in federal datasets have addresses that do not exist — such as the ICE facility listed as being located at 571 S Commercial Drive in Grand Junction, CO, which is actually located at 569 S Commercial Drive. In most cases, these small errors are replicated across multiple federal datasets. While these errors are noteworthy, CTR’s analysis of all 170 hold room locations found that none of the errors introduce ambiguity: 571 S Commercial Drive, for instance, does not exist. Searching for it produces a pin located on top of the building at 569 S Commercial Drive. 

There are also a handful of seeming errors stemming from ICE’s own data: some hold rooms have been relocated to other facilities, despite government datasets still providing vestigial addresses for them, as we discovered was the case with DENHOLD, the Denver hold room. The Google StreetView images for the listed addresses of hold rooms in Salem, Las Cruces, and Harrisonburg currently show “For Lease” or “Available” signs.

That being said, while the address data is not perfect, it is sourced from the federal government, and the superficial errors present appear to be replicated across government datasets. We have not found any inconsistencies or errors in the data detailing the number or lengths of detention stays, or detainee information.

For those interested in exploring the data more granularly, the NOCCC data scientist pseudonymized as Dorian Gray has housed all of the underlying data in a GitHub repository dedicated to ICE hold rooms data, which can be found at this link.

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