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Otay Mesa Detention Center is a minimum/medium security federal prison for men, managed by CoreCivic[1] under contract with the United States Marshals Service and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).[2]
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| Location | Otay Mesa, San Diego, California |
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| Security class | Minimum/medium |
| Capacity | 1040 |
| Managed by | CoreCivic |
| Director | Fred Lawrence |
The facility is situated in the San Ysidro Mountains foothills of Otay Mesa overlooking the U.S.-Mexico border. The Otay Mesa site is shared with four other properties related to law enforcement:[3]
- Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility, operated by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
- George Bailey Detention Facility (San Diego County)
- East Mesa Reentry Facility (San Diego County)
- Facility 8 Detention Facility (San Diego County)
- East Mesa Juvenile Detention Facility (San Diego County)
- A multi-jurisdictional law enforcement firearms training complex used by the FBI, the Customs Service, and local police forces
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