{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":["Place","GovernmentBuilding"],"alternate_language":[{"language":"es","url":"https://migrantusa.com/es/detencion-ice/cambria-county-prison/"}],"as_of":"2026-10-20","attribution":"MigrantUSA Editorial. Cambria County Prison. https://migrantusa.com/ice-detention/cambria-county-prison/","city":"Ebensburg","dateModified":"2026-10-20","description":"Cambria County Prison, Ebensburg, Pennsylvania: ICE housing resumed in fall 2025. Visits (no contact), tablet video calls, TextBehind mail, 2026 ICE inspection.","disclaimer":"General information, not legal advice. MigrantUSA is an independent publisher and is not a law firm. Always verify current details directly with the relevant agency before acting.","ero_field_office":"Philadelphia Field Office","faqs":[{"answer":"Yes. ICE’s fiscal year 2026 detention statistics list it as holding ICE detainees, and ICE’s June 2026 inspection report describes it as a U.S. Marshals Service contracted facility where ICE is an authorized user. The county’s Prison Board minutes of October 8, 2025 say the prison had received an agreement from ICE to house immigration detainees, an arrangement the warden’s report says had been in place years earlier and was discontinued during COVID.","question":"Does the Cambria County Prison hold people for ICE?"},{"answer":"The ICE Online Detainee Locator System at locator.ice.gov/odls/ searches by the person’s A-number and country of birth, or by their name, country of birth and date of birth. As of September 26, 2026, the county’s prison page has no online inmate search or roster; its main number is (814) 472-7330, and lobby hours are 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Monday through Friday.","question":"How do I find out if someone is held at the Cambria County Prison?"},{"answer":"Personal visits are by appointment only, booked at least 24 hours ahead, and the inmate must list the visitor on a Visitors Request Form. The schedule allows 2 in-person visits per week, in 40-minute weekday slots. Visitors need a valid state or federal photo ID, and each visit is limited to one adult and up to two children. The prison has not allowed contact visits since October 2018. Families can also make video calls to the inmate’s tablet through a GettingOut account.","question":"How do visits work at the Cambria County Prison?"},{"answer":"The prison lists four ways to deposit money: online, by phone at 1 (866) 516-0115 (bilingual operators, 24 hours a day), at the kiosk in the prison lobby, or through the mobile app. Personal mail does not go to the prison: it goes to TextBehind at P.O. Box # 247, Phoenix, MD 21131, with the inmate’s full name and inmate ID number; TextBehind photocopies it and the inmate receives the copy. TextBehind does not accept checks, money orders, cash or legal mail.","question":"How do I send money or mail to someone at the Cambria County Prison?"},{"answer":"ICE’s Office of Detention Oversight inspected the prison from June 3 to July 2, 2026, with one day on site on June 30, and found it compliant with all 21 standards reviewed, with no deficiencies and a rating of Superior. All six detainees interviewed reported satisfaction with facility services. ODO’s previous inspection, in March 2021, had found 6 deficiencies.","question":"What did ICE’s 2026 inspection find at the Cambria County Prison?"},{"answer":"Yes, under the Warrant Service Officer model: ICE’s 287(g) list shows the Cambria County Prison’s agreement signed July 31, 2025. The Board of Commissioners’ April 10, 2025 minutes record unanimous approval of a Memorandum of Agreement with ICE ’to allow for the identification and processing of removable aliens who have been arrested and booked at the Prison.’ The Prison Board’s May 2026 minutes say two senior staff completed the program’s accreditation, which lets them serve immigration warrants on people already held in the prison, with no off-site enforcement. It is separate from the arrangement under which ICE houses detainees there.","question":"Does the Cambria County Prison take part in 287(g)?"}],"generated":"2026-10-20","isBasedOn":"https://www.cambriacountypa.gov/?wpfd_action=wpfd_download_file&wpfd_file_id=12555&wpfd_category_id=217","language":"en","license":"https://migrantusa.com/terms/","name":"Cambria County Prison","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"MigrantUSA","url":"https://migrantusa.com/"},"source_urls":["https://www.cambriacountypa.gov/?wpfd_action=wpfd_download_file&wpfd_file_id=12555&wpfd_category_id=217","https://www.cambriacountypa.gov/?wpfd_action=wpfd_download_file&wpfd_file_id=2441&wpfd_category_id=217","http://www.ice.gov/doclib/foia/odo-compliance-inspections/cambriaCoJailEbensburgPA_Sep21-24_2020.pdf","https://www.ice.gov/doclib/facilityInspections/cambriaCoPA_CL_11-07-2019.pdf","https://www.cambriacountypa.gov/prison/","https://www.cambriacountypa.gov/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?juwpfisadmin=false&action=wpfd&task=file.download&wpfd_category_id=217&wpfd_file_id=12555","https://www.cambriacountypa.gov/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?juwpfisadmin=false&action=wpfd&task=file.download&wpfd_category_id=217&wpfd_file_id=10790","https://www.cambriacountypa.gov/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?juwpfisadmin=false&action=wpfd&task=file.download&wpfd_category_id=217&wpfd_file_id=11642","https://www.cambriacountypa.gov/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?juwpfisadmin=false&action=wpfd&task=file.download&wpfd_category_id=217&wpfd_file_id=2440","https://www.cambriacountypa.gov/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?juwpfisadmin=false&action=wpfd&task=file.download&wpfd_category_id=217&wpfd_file_id=2441","https://www.cambriacountypa.gov/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?juwpfisadmin=false&action=wpfd&task=file.download&wpfd_category_id=217&wpfd_file_id=14705","https://www.cambriacountypa.gov/download/477/minutes-2025/12801/minutes-04-10-25.pdf","https://www.cambriacountypa.gov/download/473/2025/13851/minutes-09-10-25.pdf","https://www.cambriacountypa.gov/download/473/2025/13889/minutes-10-08-25.pdf","https://www.cambriacountypa.gov/download/473/2025/13972/minutes-11-12-25.pdf","https://www.cambriacountypa.gov/download/512/2026/14575/minutes-05-13-26.pdf","https://www.cambriacountypa.gov/download/512/2026/14629/minutes-06-10-26.pdf","https://www.cambriacountypa.gov/download/512/2026/14749/minutes-07-08-26.pdf","https://www.ice.gov/doclib/foia/odo-compliance-inspections/2026-CambriaCoJailEbensburgPAJunJul.pdf","https://www.ice.gov/foia/odo-facility-inspections","https://www.ice.gov/identify-and-arrest/287g","https://www.ice.gov/file-download/download/public/209373","https://www.ice.gov/doclib/287gMOA/CambriaCoPrisonPA_WSO_MOA_073125.pdf","https://www.pa.gov/agencies/cor/about-us/offices-and-bureaus/office-of-county-inspections-and-services/inspections-and-statistics","https://www.ice.gov/detain/detainee-death-reporting","https://locator.ice.gov/odls/","https://www.ice.gov/doclib/detention/FY26_detentionStats07202026.xlsx"],"state":"PA","statistics":{"average_daily_population":51,"average_length_of_stay_days":13.5,"fiscal_year":2026,"note":"ADP = average daily population; ALOS = average length of stay. 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