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West Texas Detention Overview

West Texas Detention Facility, also named West Texas Detention Center in some later LaSalle materials, is located in Sierra Blanca in Hudspeth County. ICE significant incident summaries identify the facility at 401 South Vaquero Avenue, and LaSalle PREA audit materials describe the operator as LaSalle Corrections, LLC. The facility should be treated as a federal or contract adult detention setting, not as the Hudspeth County Jail and not as a TDCJ state prison unit.

That distinction controls the lookup path. Sheriff Arvin West and the Hudspeth County Sheriff's Office operate the county jail at a different address. West Texas Detention Facility is tied in research to ICE, USMS, BOP, LaSalle, and federal or contract detention channels. A person arrested in Hudspeth County may pass through local jail custody, federal custody, immigration custody, or state prison custody at different points, so the first question is which agency currently controls the person.

LaSalle Corrections lists West Texas audit and statistics materials on its human-rights and PREA page, which is the matching image source for this facility.

The LaSalle page supports the facility's PREA audit context, but it does not provide a current public roster, visit calendar, or money-deposit schedule.

West Texas Detention Custody

The LaSalle PREA audit describes secure long-term housing and care for adult male and female inmates or detainees. It states that youthful inmates were not housed there in the audited materials. The same source describes a correctional security program suited to maximum-to-minimum classification. Public legal and advocacy summaries have historically cited bed counts for the facility, but the research instructions require current contract or inspection verification before using a capacity number as an official build fact.

For that reason, the safer public-facing summary is based on facility type and custody authority rather than a single bed figure. ICE inspection records and LaSalle materials show the facility's role in federal or contract detention. BOP custody, ICE civil immigration custody, and USMS pretrial custody are not interchangeable, and each can produce a different search result or no web result at all.

Look Up West Texas Detainees

A West Texas Detention Facility inmate or detainee lookup should begin with the custody authority. The ICE Online Detainee Locator System is the official immigration detainee locator. The BOP inmate locator covers federal inmates incarcerated from 1982 forward and allows number or name searches. Federal pretrial detainees held under USMS contract arrangements may not appear in BOP before sentence, so federal court, counsel, USMS routing, and direct facility contact may be needed.

1. Decide whether the person is likely in ICE, BOP, USMS, county, or state custody.
2. Search ICE ODLS by A-Number and country of birth when those facts are known, or use the biographical search route.
3. Search BOP by register number, DCDC number, FBI number, INS number, or name when the person may be in sentenced federal custody.
4. Call West Texas Detention Facility if the web locator does not answer the custody question, and ask which agency's rules control visits, mail, and money.
5. Use the TDCJ offender search only if the person has been sentenced to Texas state prison, because TDCJ is not the West Texas Detention Facility roster.

West Texas Detention Address

The facility address in ICE and LaSalle materials is 401 South Vaquero Avenue in Sierra Blanca. The phone numbers below are the numbers commonly listed in official or ICE-adjacent materials reviewed in the research. Callers should be ready with the person's full name, date of birth, nationality if relevant, A-Number if relevant, BOP register number if known, and the agency believed to be responsible for custody.

West Texas Detention Visits

No current official public visitation schedule, visit-registration portal, dress code, or visitor-property rule was located for West Texas Detention Facility in the reviewed sources. ICE inspection and PREA materials show that visitation has been an audited category, but they do not supply a live schedule for family visits. Because the facility can involve ICE, USMS, BOP, or contract authority, a visitor should confirm both the person's custody authority and the facility rule in effect that week.

Travel to Sierra Blanca can involve long rural drives. Confirm the visit before leaving, and ask whether the person is still at West Texas Detention Facility because transfers can happen without a county roster notice.

West Texas Detention Mail

Current public mail, phone, commissary, deposit, tablet, or video-visit vendor rules were not found in an official facility schedule. Mail and money instructions can depend on whether a person is in ICE civil immigration custody, USMS custody, sentenced federal custody, or another contract status. Use the facility phone numbers and the responsible agency before sending funds, books, legal mail, or personal letters.

West Texas Detention Intake

West Texas Detention Facility intake is not a county street-arrest booking process. The LaSalle PREA audit material describes a secure adult detention setting with information provided to people on arrival, including PREA information and a zero-tolerance sexual-abuse policy. The audit also refers to medical care elements, including chronic care, on-call physicians, and a dentist on site at least weekly in the audited materials.

Classification matters at this facility. PREA materials describe maximum-to-minimum classification and a layout involving two buildings, multiple hallways, and central control with continuous observation in hallways. Those facts support a secure detention profile, but they do not create a public roster. The intake result a family sees may depend on the federal database, ICE ODLS, court information, or direct facility confirmation.

Hudspeth County Custody Differences

West Texas Detention Facility and Hudspeth County Jail are both in Sierra Blanca, but they serve different record systems. If the arrest began as a local Hudspeth County case, the Hudspeth County Sheriff's Office may be the first phone route for county booking questions. If the question is about an existing jail or booking record held by the county, the Hudspeth County Public Information Requests page is the written fallback. If a filed criminal case follows the arrest, the Hudspeth County and District Clerk handles adult felony and misdemeanor records for the courts listed in the research.

Those county links do not replace ICE ODLS, BOP, or USMS channels for federal and immigration custody. They help when the person moved from county booking to another system, when a local case number is needed, or when a family is trying to understand whether the jail record and the federal detention record describe the same event.

West Texas Detention Conditions

LaSalle PREA audit materials provide the strongest facility-characteristic details found in the research. They describe adult male and female detention, no youthful inmates in the audited materials, PREA information on arrival, a zero-tolerance policy for sexual abuse, central-control-linked hallways, and medical references for chronic care, on-call physicians, and weekly dentist access. These details should be treated as audit-context facts, not as a current day-by-day operations schedule.

Texas Tribune reported on October 31, 2019, that ICE transferred detainees out after a Sierra Blanca water shortage affected the facility. That report is historical conditions context only. It should not be used to claim a current water problem, a current transfer order, or a current population level. Current custody, visit access, mail, and deposit rules should be verified with the facility and the responsible custody agency.