Facilities · Immigration detention

Otay Mesa Detention Center

San Diego, San Diego County, California · capacity 1,482

Also reported as Otay Mesa ICE facility.

11 deaths are recorded here, from 2005 to 2023; all by name.

illness 11

The people

Cristian Dumitrascu March 5, 2023
Carlos Ernesto Escobar Mejía May 6, 2020
Nebane Abienwi October 1, 2019
Augustina Ramirez-Arreola July 25, 2018
Igor Zyazin May 1, 2016
Gerardo Cruz February 29, 2016
Julio Martinez January 4, 2009
Yusif Osman June 27, 2006
Roberto Ledesman-Guerreo December 2, 2005
Ignacio Sarabia-Vallasenor January 4, 2005
Gerardo Cruz-Sanchez Date not reported

History and conditions

Research on this facility’s history, oversight and conditions is coming.