Otay Mesa Detention Center

Otay Mesa Detention Center is a minimum/medium security federal prison for women, managed by CoreCivic^[1] under contract with the United States Marshals Service and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).^[2]

Otay Mesa Detention Center

Location	Otay Mesa, San Diego, California
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 some 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