FDC Miami

FDC Miami is an ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) detention facility located in Miami, Florida. It falls under the Miami Field Office ERO field office area of responsibility.

Facility quick reference

How to locate or contact a detainee

To locate someone in ICE custody, use the ICE Online Detainee Locator System at locator.ice.gov. You will need the person’s A-number (Alien Registration Number) and country of birth, or their full name, country of birth, and date of birth.

To ask whether someone is held here, call the number ICE publishes for detainee information: (305) 577-0010. Have the detainee’s full name and alien registration number (A-number) ready, or alternatively their biographical information: first, last and hyphenated names, any aliases, date of birth and country of birth. ICE’s page for this facility publishes no separate urgent-message line — ask this number how to get a message to the person. Detainees cannot receive incoming calls — they place outgoing calls themselves. ICE’s page lists no hours for this line. To exchange electronic messages with someone held here, ICE points to the BOP’s TRULINCS system (CorrLinks), which works only with people on the detainee’s approved contact list.

Visiting in person

• ICE says individuals who refuse to cooperate with a reasonable search will not be admitted (checked October 24, 2026).
• ICE prohibits electronic devices, including cell phones, pagers and radios, in this facility’s secure areas (checked October 24, 2026).

ICE’s page for this facility (last updated 08/06/2026, checked October 15, 2026) says you can visit a detainee at FDC Miami only if the detainee has put you on their visitor list and you have been cleared by the BOP. The BOP sets its own rules on who can visit, dress code, visit length, behavior and physical contact; ICE links the BOP’s FDC Miami Visitation Guide and its general visiting page. ICE says parking is not provided by the facility.

ICE says that if legal visiting hours are changed or canceled, FDC Miami notifies the Federal Public Defender’s Office, the CJA representative, the U.S. Attorney’s Office and the U.S. District Court as soon as practicable.

Sending mail, commissary funds, and personal items

ICE says letters sent to detainees must include the last four digits of the A-number, plus the sender’s name and address (checked October 20, 2026) — and each facility publishes its own exact format: some also require a housing-unit number, and facilities run by the federal Bureau of Prisons use the BOP register number instead. ICE lists each facility’s format on that facility’s page at ice.gov. This facility’s own ICE page says incoming mail “is not read upon opening, only inspected by the delivering officer” and that detainees may seal their own outgoing letters. ICE’s 2019 national standard allows more than that. Under ICE’s National Detention Standards, Revised 2019, §5.1(E) — cited here for comparison only, because we have not confirmed which detention standard governs this facility — incoming general mail is opened and inspected for contraband, and outgoing general mail may be inspected and read if it is addressed to another detainee or staff have reason to believe it threatens the facility’s security or order, endangers someone, or could facilitate criminal activity. Only special correspondence — mail to or from attorneys and other legal representatives, courts and judges, government attorneys, embassies and consulates, the President and Vice President of the United States, members of Congress, the Department of Justice (including the immigration courts), DHS (including ICE/ERO, IHSC, CRCL and the DHS Inspector General), grievance administrators, and the news media — may not be read or copied by staff. Incoming special correspondence is inspected for contraband in the detainee’s presence; outgoing special correspondence is not opened, inspected or read, and if a need exists, any inspection takes place in the detainee’s presence. The standard limits any inspection to detecting physical contraband and confirming that enclosures qualify as special correspondence. Mail counts as special correspondence only if the envelope unambiguously identifies the title and office of the sender (incoming mail) or of the addressee (outgoing mail). Rules for commissary (account) deposits and permitted personal items vary by facility, and so does the number that handles them — ICE names a separate facility mail clerk on some facility pages. This facility’s deposit route, accepted form of payment and contacts are in the Sending Items to Detainees section of its own ICE page (linked above).

What ICE publishes for this facility’s mail, money, and packages

• ICE cautions detainees not to have cash sent to them in the mail (checked October 24, 2026).
• ICE says detainees being removed from the United States are allowed one small piece of luggage (checked October 24, 2026).
• After departure or transfer: ICE says only legal mail is forwarded; general correspondence is marked “Return to Sender” and returned to the post office (checked October 24, 2026).

The BOP’s December 2023 attorney guide says FDC Miami provides mail service five days a week (Monday through Friday), excluding weekends and holidays.

• Letters go to the BOP post office box, addressed with the inmate name and BOP register number:

[Inmate name and register number]
FDC Miami
Federal Detention Center
P.O. Box 019120
Miami, FL 33101

• Money: ICE says money is not to be given directly to the detainee, and links to the BOP’s instructions for sending funds.
• Packages: only items needed solely for travel or release from custody are allowed, with the ICE Deportation Officer’s approval; ICE refers senders to the BOP’s mail rules first.

Legal access, attorneys, and immigration court information

Detainees have the right to speak with an attorney, and attorney–client visits and calls are confidential. For information about a case before the immigration court (EOIR), EOIR’s automated line 1-800-898-7180 (toll-free, 24 hours a day, English and Spanish) gives the next hearing date and case status; callers enter the 9 digits of the A-number, without the letter A (EOIR, checked October 24, 2026). For a matter before the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA), the main line of EOIR (the Justice Department agency the BIA belongs to) is (703) 305-0289. Applications for relief from removal must be filed directly with the immigration court handling the case. If you cannot afford an attorney, the immigration court can provide a list of pro bono legal service providers — see the related resources below.

Case information, the deportation officer, and legal calls

• Case-information requests go to mim-execassistant-s@bop.gov, a BOP mailbox. ICE says it does not accept applications for a stay of removal or case appeals.
• Finding a client’s Deportation Officer: call the Duty Supervisory Detention and Deportation Officer (SDDO) at (305) 207-2101. A G-28 must be on file before any information is disclosed.
• Legal calls: attorneys can email a request to the BOP Legal Liaison at MIM-LegalLiaison-S@bop.gov. ICE’s page says calls on the Inmate Telephone System are monitored and/or recorded, three-way calls are not authorized, and FDC Miami is installing direct, unmonitored lines to the Federal Public Defender’s Office in each housing unit.

What the BOP’s attorney guide adds

• Non-attorney legal visitors: the BOP’s December 2023 guide requires prior Legal Liaison authorization for attorney assistants, including paralegals and interpreters. It requires non-attorney visitors to email fully completed Application to Enter Institution as Representative (BP-A0243) and Criminal History Check (BP-A0660) forms to the Legal Liaison before the visit.
• Background clearance: the same guide says FDC Miami staff conduct an NCIC background check and the Legal Liaison notifies the sponsoring attorney whether the non-attorney visitor is approved. The guide says clearance is valid for up to 1 year.
• Legal-mail delivery: the same guide says staff, including officers in the front lobby and visiting room, do not accept legal mail or materials for delivery.

The BOP’s Attorney Guide to the Federal Detention Center, Miami (dated December 2023 and linked from ICE’s page) says:

• Two BOP mailboxes: MIM-ExecAssistant-S@bop.gov for questions about conditions of confinement and medical care, and MIM-LegalLiaison-S@bop.gov for legal activities, legal visiting and legal calls. Put the inmate’s name, register number and the nature of the request in the subject line.

• The guide says advance scheduling is “not ordinarily required unless the legal visit involves a special request”; examples include special requests such as a joint co-defendant meeting, recording devices, a hospital visit or a special legal visitor; those go to the Legal Liaison for approval, and emails about an initial appearance marked “urgent” in the subject line are prioritized.

• Every visitor fills out a Notification to Visitor form (BP-A0224) on arrival. The guide lists as “generally not permitted”, among other items, hats or caps, sleeveless garments, skirts two inches or more above the knee, and clothing that looks like inmate clothing (khaki or green military-type).

• Staff mail goes to a separate box, P.O. Box 019118, Miami, FL 33101.

• The BOP’s December 2023 guide states: “The Legal Liaison will ordinarily respond to routine requests within three business days.”

• The same guide says pretrial detainees may purchase reading glasses needed to review discovery through the commissary; Health Services purchases, stocks and furnishes reading glasses to indigent individuals.

Feedback, complaints, and oversight

To report a concern about conditions at this facility or the conduct of an ICE or contract employee, contact the ERO Miami Field Office that oversees this facility, or file a complaint with the DHS Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (CRCL). On its own Make a Civil Rights Complaint page DHS publishes one channel — the online portal at engage.dhs.gov/crcl-complaint; CBP additionally publishes, for the same office, the e-mail address CRCL@dhs.gov, fax (202) 401-4708, and the postal address DHS/CRCL, Compliance Branch, 2707 Martin Luther King Jr Ave SE, Mail Stop #0190, Washington, DC 20528-0190. The DHS Office of Inspector General (OIG) hotline is 1-800-323-8603.

This facility’s own ICE page adds these channels:

• Comments on service, or a misconduct complaint to the field office: Field Office Director, Enforcement and Removal Operations, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 865 SW 78th Avenue, Suite 101, Plantation, FL 33324, (954) 236-4900.
• ICE Office of Professional Responsibility (by mail): ICE’s page for FDC Miami lists Director, Office of Professional Responsibility, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, P.O. Box 14475, Pennsylvania Ave, NW, Washington, D.C. 20044. ICE’s pages for other facilities list a different OPR address (500 12th Street, SW, Suite 1049, Mailstop 5099, Washington, DC 20536-5005).
• Joint Intake Center: 1-877-2INTAKE or joint.intake@dhs.gov.

A news reporter who wants to interview someone held here must apply in writing to the Miami Field Office of Enforcement and Removal Operations. ICE says a detainee has the right not to be interviewed, photographed or recorded, and the reporter must first obtain the detainee’s written permission.

Inspection record

As of October 15, 2026, ICE’s ODO facility inspections page lists no Office of Detention Oversight report for FDC Miami.

287(g) agreements in Miami-Dade County

This facility is in Miami-Dade County, Florida (per the U.S. Census Bureau geocoder for the address ICE publishes). ICE's 287(g) participating-agencies workbook, dated October 9, 2026, records 3 agreements with agencies in that county:

Source: ICE, 287(g) program (participating-agencies workbook). A 287(g) agreement is between ICE and the law-enforcement agency; on its own it says nothing about this facility. What each model means · all agreements by state.

Related procedural resources

• Know Your Rights — what to do if ICE detains you
• EOIR immigration court schedules and procedures
• BIA-recognized legal-aid organizations in Florida
• Other ICE detention facilities in Florida
• All facilities under the Miami Field Office