Otay Mesa Detention Center
Otay Mesa Detention Center is a minimum/medium security federal prison for women, managed by CoreCivic under contract with the United States Marshals Service and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
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:
- Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility, operated by the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
- George Bailey Detention Facility
- East Mesa Reentry Facility
- Facility 8 Detention Facility
- East Mesa Juvenile Detention Facility
- A multi-jurisdictional law enforcement firearms training complex used by the FBI, the Customs Service, and local police forces