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{ "registry_id": "vr.tr.immigration-detention-center", "name": "immigration detention center", "purpose": "Enable an agent to recognize an immigration detention center, assess its physical and operational condition, and identify what evidence and authorization are needed before proposing actions affecting its use or occupants.", "definition": "An immigration detention center is a facility in which people are deprived of liberty under immigration powers, typically while authorities determine their identity, immigration status, admission, or removal.", "scope_statement": "This model owns the immigration detention center as a physical facility type, including dedicated detention areas within larger sites; it adds immigration-related confinement, controlled movement, accommodation, care, and access requirements to the broader concept of a center, while referencing separate models for operators, legal proceedings, and individual people.", "in_scope": [ "Facility boundaries, buildings, detention units, and shared spaces", "Immigration detention purpose, designated population, and operational status", "Confinement arrangements and controlled routes for admission, movement, and departure", "Accommodation capacity, occupancy, essential services, and physical conditions", "Spaces and arrangements for healthcare, legal consultation, visits, and independent monitoring" ], "out_of_scope": [ "The operating organization as an institution, including its corporate governance", "Individual immigration cases, detention decisions, and removal proceedings", "Personal medical records and individual care plans", "Immigration policy and detention law as independent bodies of rules", "Transport vehicles and detention escort services outside the facility boundary", "Open reception centers, ordinary accommodation, and criminal custody facilities except where they share the site" ], "distinguishing_features": [ "Evidence identifies immigration-related detention as a designated or actual use; accommodating migrants alone does not establish this facility type.", "Occupants cannot freely leave the designated detention area under ordinary operating arrangements; reception or shelter terminology alone is insufficient.", "The modeled entity has an identifiable physical boundary or dedicated area, rather than being only an operating agency or detention program.", "Where a site also supports criminal custody or open reception, the immigration detention component can be identified without classifying the entire site by that use.", "The model records the facility kind separately from a named center, its operator, and a particular building or housing unit." ], "characteristics": [ { "name": "Detention-use designation", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "dedicated immigration detention; mixed-use detention; temporary designated detention; disputed or unverified", "why_it_matters": "Distinguishes this facility type from accommodation and other forms of custody without relying on its name." }, { "name": "Operational status", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "proposed; commissioned; operating; partially operating; suspended; closed; repurposed; unknown", "why_it_matters": "Prevents historical designation from being mistaken for current detention activity." }, { "name": "Detention-area boundary", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to site, buildings, units, shared spaces, and controlled boundary points", "why_it_matters": "Establishes which physical spaces and conditions belong to the detention center." }, { "name": "Capacity by basis", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "persons, separately recording design, authorized, and currently serviceable capacity with source and date", "why_it_matters": "Avoids treating nominal bed count as evidence that accommodation and services are adequate." }, { "name": "Occupancy by housing unit", "kind": "measurement", "unit_or_values": "persons per unit at a recorded timestamp", "why_it_matters": "Supports assessment of crowding and service demand while avoiding unnecessary personal data." }, { "name": "Designated admission population", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Documented age groups, family arrangements, and other admission restrictions; unknown where unverified", "why_it_matters": "Allows comparison between the facility's designation and the accommodation or support it can provide." }, { "name": "Movement regime", "kind": "category", "unit_or_values": "Documented permissions and restrictions by zone, occupant group, and time", "why_it_matters": "Captures how confinement operates beyond the perimeter, including access to outdoor areas and services." }, { "name": "Responsible authorities and operator", "kind": "relation", "unit_or_values": "Links to designating authority, detaining authority, operator, and oversight bodies with responsibility scope", "why_it_matters": "Identifies who can authorize changes and who is responsible for addressing facility deficiencies." }, { "name": "Essential-service availability", "kind": "state", "unit_or_values": "available; restricted; interrupted; unavailable; unverified, separately for each service and assessment time", "why_it_matters": "Makes failures affecting confined occupants visible even when the facility remains operational." } ], "affordances": [ "Classify a site or dedicated area using evidence of immigration detention use and restrictions on leaving.", "Map detention units, shared services, controlled routes, and responsibility boundaries.", "Compare dated occupancy with capacity figures whose basis is explicitly recorded.", "Identify gaps in accommodation, healthcare access, communication, and emergency arrangements for the designated population.", "Route proposed repairs, access changes, or operational restrictions to the responsible authority for review.", "Assemble a sourced facility assessment that separates observations, reported conditions, and unresolved questions." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Report on detention centres from public inspection, court and monitoring records, with sources.", "Help detained people or their representatives find legal aid, consular and complaint routes.", "Report conditions that endanger detainees' health or safety to the responsible authority." ], "must_not": [ "Help locate, track or identify detainees for anyone other than authorized parties or the person themselves.", "Disclose a detainee's identity, health or asylum details without consent or legal basis.", "Assist in unlawful detention, abuse or denial of access to lawyers.", "Describe people in detention as criminals or use dehumanising language about them." ], "requires_human": [ "Any decision on detention, release or removal of a person.", "Sharing information about a detainee with the authorities of their country of origin." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Detention deprives people of liberty without a criminal conviction; it must be lawful and humane.", "Children, asylum seekers and survivors of torture are especially vulnerable in detention." ], "affected_parties": [ "Detained people", "Their families", "Staff and visitors" ] }, "owners": { "steward": "The operating immigration authority or its contractor; inspectorates and courts oversee it.", "master_systems": [] }, "visual_identification": [ "A secure compound with fencing, controlled gates and staffed entry points.", "Signage naming an immigration or border authority." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Overcrowding and poor care harm physical and mental health.", "Prolonged detention increases the risk of self-harm." ], "standards_and_regulation": [ "Optional Protocol to the Convention against Torture, United Nations." ], "what_it_is_for": [ "Immigration detention centers are used by public authorities to hold people under immigration powers while matters such as identity, admission, immigration status or removal are addressed.", "They may operate near borders, airports or inland administrative centers and provide controlled accommodation alongside immigration processing.", "Their use is encountered in immigration administration, legal representation, independent monitoring and the provision of health and welfare services." ] }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q2261391: immigration detention center", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2261391", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Immigration detention center", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_detention_center", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "detention-identity-and-boundary", "name": "Detention identity and boundary", "description": "Establishes why the place qualifies as an immigration detention center and which parts of a site the classification covers.", "rationale": "A facility name does not reliably establish confinement, immigration purpose, or the extent of a mixed-use site.", "layers": [ { "id": "purpose-and-designation", "name": "Purpose and designation", "description": "Records evidence of intended and actual immigration detention use.", "findings": [ { "id": "immigration-detention-use", "name": "Immigration detention use", "description": "Distinguish documented designation from observed use and retain discrepancies without resolving them by assumption.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence establishes that this facility holds people for immigration-related purposes and restricts their ability to leave?", "kind": "definition", "id": "immigration-detention-use-q01" }, { "text": "Who issued the designation, when did it apply, and what evidence describes current use?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "immigration-detention-use-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "physical-and-shared-boundaries", "name": "Physical and shared boundaries", "description": "Separates dedicated detention space from neighboring or shared functions.", "findings": [ { "id": "detention-component", "name": "Detention component", "description": "Identify the buildings, units, perimeter points, and shared facilities attributable to immigration detention.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which spaces form the immigration detention area, and which belong to criminal custody, open reception, or unrelated uses?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "detention-component-q01" }, { "text": "Which entrances, medical rooms, visiting spaces, or utilities are shared, and who controls access to them?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "detention-component-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "confinement-and-movement", "name": "Confinement and movement", "description": "Describes the physical and operational arrangements governing admission, internal movement, and departure.", "rationale": "Restrictions on leaving and moving within the facility are central to its identity and affect access to every service.", "layers": [ { "id": "admission-and-departure", "name": "Admission and departure", "description": "Connects custody transitions to facility spaces and responsible roles.", "findings": [ { "id": "custody-transition-arrangements", "name": "Custody transition arrangements", "description": "Record intake, transfer, and release arrangements without substituting the facility model for individual detention decisions.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which spaces and procedures support admission, temporary waiting, transfer, and release?", "kind": "definition", "id": "custody-transition-arrangements-q01" }, { "text": "Which responsible roles verify authorization for each custody transition, and how are unresolved discrepancies escalated?", "kind": "action", "id": "custody-transition-arrangements-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "internal-movement-and-emergencies", "name": "Internal movement and emergencies", "description": "Examines how controlled movement affects daily access and emergency departure.", "findings": [ { "id": "movement-and-safe-egress", "name": "Movement and safe egress", "description": "Record restrictions between housing and service areas alongside arrangements for evacuation from locked spaces.", "questions": [ { "text": "What permissions, schedules, or staffing dependencies govern access to healthcare, consultation rooms, outdoor areas, and other housing units?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "movement-and-safe-egress-q01" }, { "text": "What verified arrangements allow occupants, including those needing assistance, to evacuate locked areas during an emergency?", "kind": "action", "id": "movement-and-safe-egress-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "detention-accommodation-and-care", "name": "Detention accommodation and care", "description": "Relates occupancy and population needs to usable living space, essential services, and healthcare access.", "rationale": "People confined at the facility depend on its arrangements to obtain accommodation, necessities, and care.", "layers": [ { "id": "population-and-housing", "name": "Population and housing", "description": "Assesses whether the available housing supports the population the center is designated to receive.", "findings": [ { "id": "usable-capacity-and-placement", "name": "Usable capacity and placement", "description": "Keep capacity bases separate and assess housing arrangements against documented admission categories and support needs.", "questions": [ { "text": "What are the dated occupancy, design capacity, authorized capacity, and serviceable capacity for each detention housing unit?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "usable-capacity-and-placement-q01" }, { "text": "Which housing arrangements support or limit accommodation of families, different age groups, and people with accessibility or protection needs?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "usable-capacity-and-placement-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "essential-services-and-healthcare", "name": "Essential services and healthcare", "description": "Examines the services occupants can actually reach while confined.", "findings": [ { "id": "access-to-necessities-and-care", "name": "Access to necessities and care", "description": "Record provision and practical access separately for food, water, sanitation, hygiene, suitable indoor conditions, and physical and mental healthcare.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence establishes availability, interruptions, and access delays for necessities and healthcare across detention units?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "access-to-necessities-and-care-q01" }, { "text": "How can occupants request confidential care, obtain language assistance, and receive urgent assessment or transfer when on-site services are insufficient?", "kind": "action", "id": "access-to-necessities-and-care-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "contact-accountability-and-remedy", "name": "Contact, accountability, and remedy", "description": "Models access beyond confinement and the mechanisms for detecting and correcting facility problems.", "rationale": "Physical restrictions can obstruct legal assistance, outside contact, complaints, and independent examination of conditions.", "layers": [ { "id": "legal-and-personal-contact", "name": "Legal and personal contact", "description": "Examines spaces, equipment, and procedures supporting confidential consultation and outside communication.", "findings": [ { "id": "effective-outside-access", "name": "Effective outside access", "description": "Distinguish nominal availability from usable access to legal representatives, interpreters, family contact, and relevant external services.", "questions": [ { "text": "What facilities and arrangements support private legal consultation, interpretation, telephone or digital communication, and visits?", "kind": "definition", "id": "effective-outside-access-q01" }, { "text": "What documented scheduling, cost, accessibility, language, or monitoring conditions limit practical use of these channels?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "effective-outside-access-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "inspection-and-corrective-action", "name": "Inspection and corrective action", "description": "Connects complaints and external observations to responsible parties and verified follow-up.", "findings": [ { "id": "reviewable-conditions-and-remedies", "name": "Reviewable conditions and remedies", "description": "Record dated evidence, disputed observations, responsible roles, and the status of corrective actions without treating assertions as resolved findings.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which bodies can inspect this facility, what access do they have, and which dated reports or complaint records have been reviewed?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "reviewable-conditions-and-remedies-q01" }, { "text": "How can occupants raise confidential concerns, and who must investigate, implement corrective action, and verify completion?", "kind": "action", "id": "reviewable-conditions-and-remedies-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "This is recall-based information; no sources or current regulatory editions were checked.", "Facility labels do not reliably establish legal status: actual restrictions, legal authority, and access to release or review require investigation.", "No typical capacity, floor-area allowance, or detention-duration range is supplied because these vary substantially and require jurisdiction-specific evidence." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of immigration detention center this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Short-term immigration holding facility", "Purpose-built immigration detention facility", "Immigration removal center", "Family immigration detention facility", "Dedicated immigration detention unit within a multipurpose custodial facility" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of immigration detention center this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation", "name": "Standards and regulation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "United Nations: International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, particularly Article 9 on liberty and arbitrary detention and Article 10 on humane treatment of people deprived of liberty.", "United Nations: Convention on the Rights of the Child, particularly Article 37 on deprivation of liberty involving children.", "UNHCR: Guidelines on the Applicable Criteria and Standards relating to the Detention of Asylum-Seekers and Alternatives to Detention; guidance specifically concerning asylum-seekers.", "United Nations General Assembly: United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners (the Nelson Mandela Rules), a nonbinding reference for custodial conditions whose application must account for the detention context.", "United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement: Performance-Based National Detention Standards; the applicable standards and edition depend on the facility and governing arrangements." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-standards-and-regulation-q01", "text": "Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of immigration detention center this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Holding people during identity or immigration-status checks.", "Holding some applicants while admission or asylum procedures are pending, where detention is authorized.", "Holding people while removal or deportation arrangements are made.", "Providing secure accommodation and custodial services during detention under immigration powers." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of immigration detention center this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Arbitrary or prolonged detention and ineffective access to review of detention.", "Overcrowding, poor sanitation, inadequate ventilation, and infectious-disease transmission.", "Inadequate medical or mental-health care, including risks of self-harm and suicide.", "Violence, abuse, coercion, and inappropriate use of force or isolation.", "Barriers to legal advice, interpretation, family contact, and identification of people with particular protection needs." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of immigration detention center this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Terminology varies: detention center, removal center, and holding facility may indicate different legal purposes or custody durations.", "Facilities may be operated by immigration agencies, other public authorities, or contractors; some jurisdictions also use prisons or local jails.", "Legal grounds, review procedures, detention limits, and rules concerning children and families vary by jurisdiction." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of immigration detention center this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "center", "difference": "Center is a generic designation; this narrower facility type is distinguished by deprivation of liberty under immigration powers." }, { "name": "prison", "difference": "A prison principally holds people under criminal-justice powers; immigration detention rests on immigration powers, although the same premises may serve both functions." }, { "name": "refugee camp", "difference": "A refugee camp principally provides accommodation or assistance to displaced people; camp residence does not by itself establish detention." }, { "name": "asylum reception center", "difference": "A reception center accommodates asylum applicants; whether it also constitutes detention depends on actual restrictions on leaving, not its name." }, { "name": "immigration enforcement agency", "difference": "The agency is the institution exercising immigration functions; the detention center is the physical facility used for custody." } ], "questions": [ { "id": 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