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- Northwest Detention Center, U.S. Bureau of Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE), Dept. of Homeland Security (before 2003 the dept. was known as the U.S. Immigration & Naturalization Service) GEO Group / Correctional Services Corp. (Sarasota, Florida), builder & operator -original162,000 sq. ft., 500 inmate capacity, expandable to 760 inmates -expanded to 1,500 in 2008 -opened 4/7/2004 TNT 12/3/1999 p.A1 Tideflats sites eyed for INS holding jail T.Reporter 4/6/2000 p.7 Just another jail in paradise TNT 12/17/2000 p.B1 Work on INS jail may start soon TNT 7/31/2002 p.B2 Florida company will build INS detention facility on Tideflats T.Weekly 9/27/2002 p.A6 Opinions: INS detention center will drag Tacoma down TNT 3/9/2004 p.A1 Federal jail anything but a dungeon (interior il) TNT 3/14/2004 p.B6 Prosecutor warns feds not to dump alien convicts here (il) T.Weekly 4/1/2004 p.A1 New detention center in Tacoma raising concerns (il) TNT 4/8/2004 p.B1 Detention center discord TNT 7/4/2008 p.A1 Detainee facility to expand TNT 1/9/2009 p.D1 Detention Center cleanup due again TNT 9/9/2012 p.A1 Center of detention (first of a special five-part News Tribune report) (aerial il) TNT 3/10/2014 p.A3 330 immigration center detainees on hunger strike TNT 10/8/2015 p.A3 Must we have 10 more years of privately run immigrant detention on Tideflats? (interior il) TNT 2/10/2017 p.A1 Under Trump, detention centers expected to be a growth industry (aerial) TNT 2/26/2017 p.A1 In Trump era, could ICE center expand? (aerial il) TNT 3/9/2017 p.A1 Interim rule blocks detention site growth T.Weekly 3/31/2017 p.A1 Northwest Detention Center: Inside the fence (interior il) TNT 3/25/2018 p.B1 ICE detention site sues city over efforts to limit its size TNT 6/28/2018 p.A1 Ten arrested outside migrant detention center, police say (aerial il) TNT 9/26/2018 p.A1 Tacoma gets win in effort to stop immigration detention center growth (il) TNT 7/14/2019 p.A1 Police shoot, kill attacker at center for ICE detainees (il) TNT 7/15/2019 p.A1 Morning after attack, bullet holes and a search for answers (il) TNT 7/17/2019 p.A1 Officials urge unity following ICE center attack TNT 7/20/2019 p.A1 Officers in fatal shooting at detention center identified TNT 7/21/2019 p.A5 Man killed outside detention center felt angry toward ICE TNT 8/17/2019 p.A3 Video reveals explosion, gunfire during immigrant center attack ----- Northwest ICE Processing Center TNT 9/11/2019 p.A1 ICE allows media in detention center 2 months after attack (interior il) TNT 12/14/2020 p.2A Advocates seek court order on detention facility (il)
- Year Built: 2004
- Decade Built: 2000s