Adams County Correctional Facility

Adams County Correctional Center (ACCC) is a medium security prison for men located in unincorporated Adams County, Mississippi, near Natchez, It is owned and operated by CoreCivic under contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement since 2019. After striking ground in August 2007 at 20 Hobo Fork Road, Adams Correctional Center opened in July 2009 under contract with the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The facility has a capacity of around 2,260 inmates. Most of its prisoners are illegal immigrants charged with re-entering the United States after a deportation. It currently holds the largest number of illegal migrants of all detention facilities in the United States with an average daily population of 2,154 CoreCivic has owned the prison since 2007; the facility did not open until late in 2009. According to an FBI affidavit dated to 2012, the majority of those incarcerated were Mexican nationals. The largest group of prisoners were "Paisas", an influential group of Mexican nationals who hold power over the prison population.

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