Analysis of ICE detention facilities characteristics

This repository minimally processes and selects data from ICE detention facility characteristics spreadsheet obtained via FOIA (NIJC 2017); and joins this to a table of UWCHR-researched facility characteristics for facilities not included in NIJC 2017.

Sources for ice-facilities characteristics

Data in ice-facilities/hand/to_research.csv, which is a file containing information for "new" detention facilities (in use from 2017), comes from:

• For aor (Area of Responsiblity) column:
  • ICE Dentention Facilities website
  • ACLU's "Justice-Free Zones" report, Appendix p. 60-61
• For addresses columns (address, city, state, zip), and some observations' contract, type_detailed, and guaranteed_minimum:
  • TRAC Immigration
• More on guaranteed_minimum:
  • DHS US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Budget Overview, p. 145
• For county column: Google results based on detailed address
• For circuit column:
  • SCOTUS Circuit Assignments
• For over_72 column:
  • ICE Detention Statistics - Over-72-Hour Facilities
• Most columns and info from other sources were taken from and compared with:
  • ICE Detention Statistics - FY21_detentionStats07082021.xlsx