The Cibola County Correctional Center (CCCC) was the focus of great scrutiny and ultimately closed when the Federal Bureau of Prisons prematurely ended its contract in August of 2016 due to rampant medical neglect and failures to provide basic services.
Since reopening with an ICE contract, CCCC has continued to be a site of horrific acts of medical negligence, including the death of Roxana Hernandez in May 2018.
The multi-billion dollar company CoreCivic owns and operates CCCC. CoreCivic also owns and operates the infamous Torrance County Detention Facility in Estancia, New Mexico.
CCCC has the capacity to detain up to 1,129 people at a given time. The facility has a long track record of legal and human rights violations, including the abhorrent treatment of transgender people seeking asylum detained in the now closed “trans pod.”
For more detailed documentation about the history of CCCC, follow the links below:
- Timeline of abuse at CCCC
- News about the Cibola County Correctional Center
- Reports and Complaints about the Cibola County Correctional Center
Learn more about the harmful histories of the other immigration detention centers in New Mexico:
