Stewart Detention Center

Stewart Detention Center is an ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) detention facility located in Lumpkin, Georgia. It falls under the Atlanta 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, and to leave an urgent message for a detainee, ICE publishes one number: (229) 838-5000. Give the detainee’s full name and alien registration number (A-number), plus your own name and a phone number where you can be reached; the facility passes the message on. ICE also lists (229) 838-1100, which it labels the facility’s ICE main phone (it labels (229) 838-5000 the CCA main phone). Detainees cannot receive incoming calls — they place outgoing calls themselves. Have the person’s biographical information ready when you call (full legal name and any aliases, date of birth, and country of birth). ICE says to call that line between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. ICE says the facility has tablets, and that information on sending a detainee a non-confidential message is at gettingout.com (as of October 10, 2026).

Visiting in person

ICE’s page for this facility (last updated 08/06/2026, checked October 10, 2026) lists these friends-and-family visiting hours. ICE says visitation days include all designated federal holidays.

Each detainee is allowed one visit per week (Sunday to Saturday) of up to one hour, and all family and other social visits are non-contact. ICE says visits may be cut to shorter periods when there are more visitors than the visiting room can hold, and may also be shortened because of security risks, count or other unanticipated events.

Rules for visitors (as ICE lists them): adult visitors must present a valid, verifiable government-issued identification card, and visitors should enter with picture identification and no other property; ICE says items such as purses, cell phones, money and wallets should be left secured in a vehicle. Minors must be accompanied by an adult guardian (18 or older) and may not be left unaccompanied in the waiting room, the visiting room or any other area. Everyone entering is subject to a pat-down, a search of belongings and a metal scan, and anyone who refuses a reasonable search is not admitted. Visitors who are or appear intoxicated are turned away, nothing may be passed to a detainee or carried into the visitation area, and no firearms or weapons of any kind are permitted in the facility, and no electronic devices (cell phones, pagers, radios) are allowed in the secure areas. ICE lists free public parking (designated visitor parking is marked) and says GPS users may enter 79 Holder Road, Lumpkin, GA as an alternative address.

Sending mail, commissary funds, and personal items

Letters and packages sent to a detainee must identify the detainee and show the sender’s name and return address (this facility’s own format is below) — 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 detention standards allow more than that. ICE’s Office of Detention Oversight inspected this facility in March 2025 under the Performance-Based National Detention Standards (PBNDS) 2011 (Revised 2016) (inspection report). Under that standard’s mail section, 5.1, staff open and inspect incoming general correspondence for contraband in the detainee’s presence unless the facility administrator authorizes otherwise, and it “may be read to the extent necessary to maintain security, as authorized by the facility administrator” — reading, with the administrator’s approval, may be done at random. Outgoing general mail may be inspected or read if it is addressed to another detainee or there is evidence it might threaten the facility’s secure or orderly operation, endanger the recipient or the public, or facilitate criminal activity. Only special correspondence or legal mail — mail to or from attorneys and other legal representatives, government attorneys, judges and courts, embassies and consulates, the President and Vice President, members of Congress, the Justice Department and DHS (including ICE, ERO, ICE Health Services Corps, CRCL and the DHS Inspector General), outside health care professionals, grievance administrators and the news media — may not be read: the envelope must be labeled “special correspondence” or “legal mail” and identify the sender’s or addressee’s title and office. Staff may neither read nor copy it; any inspection takes place in the detainee’s presence and is limited to detecting physical contraband and confirming that enclosures qualify as special correspondence or legal mail. Rules for commissary (account) deposits and permitted personal items vary by facility; confirm the current procedure and any approved vendor on the official ICE page linked above before sending money or items.

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

CoreCivic’s Stewart payment flyer lists these telephone deposit routes (checked October 17, 2026):

• Trust: 888-988-4768, using site ID 301.

• AdvancePay: 800-483-8314.

• PIN Debit: 855-706-2445.

• Letters must include the last four digits of the detainee’s A-number (File Number), plus the sender’s name and address. Incoming mail is screened for contraband; outgoing mail is routed to the post office within 24 hours of receipt by facility staff, and a mail pick-up and delivery schedule is posted in the housing units.

• Money: ICE’s Stewart page (rechecked October 17, 2026) names no deposit company, phone route or online route; the routes above come from CoreCivic’s flyer. ICE’s page says funds received in the mail are taken to the processing area to be placed on the detainee’s account, with a receipt from the processing officer, and that detainees are cautioned not to have cash sent to them in the mail. ICE lists (229) 838-5000 as the facility main phone.

• Packages: limited to items needed solely for travel or release from custody, with the approval of the ICE Deportation Officer handling the case. Before sending one, ICE says to contact the facility’s Chief of Security: Stewart Detention Center, Chief of Security, 146 CCA Road, P.O. Box 248, Lumpkin, GA 31815.

• Stamps: detainees may buy them; indigent detainees (no means of support and no funds in their facility account) get a postage allowance at government expense.

• Transfers and departures: only legal mail is forwarded; general correspondence is returned to sender.

• Luggage for removal: one small piece is allowed; if the person has none, luggage can be sent or delivered after approval from the Supervisory Deportation Officer. No electronic devices (cell phones, electric razors, laptops, radios) are accepted.

For how deposit routes differ from facility to facility, see how to send money to someone in ICE detention.

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.

Legal visits, video calls and legal documents

ICE’s page for this facility publishes these channels for legal representatives (checked October 10, 2026). The page’s legal section also carries a heading on attorney-client communication pursuant to SPLC v. DHS, et al. (No. 18-0760).

• Case information: requests about people detained here go to Atlanta.Outreach@ice.dhs.gov. ICE notes that this mailbox does not accept applications for a stay of removal or case appeals.
• Deportation Officer: to learn who a client’s Deportation Officer is, ICE points to the same Atlanta.Outreach@ice.dhs.gov mailbox and lists (229) 838-1105 at Stewart Detention Center; a G-28 must be on file before any information is disclosed.
• G-28s can be submitted through ICE’s online platform ERO eFile. Facility staff do not have access to ERO eFile, so representatives should bring a downloaded copy of the submitted G-28 to any in-person or remote legal visit.
• In-person legal visits: scheduled in advance through ERO eFile on a first-come basis, in 2-hour increments; back-to-back appointments are allowed but may not exceed four hours. Walk-in visits are still permitted, but scheduled visits are prioritized and space depends on availability. Include a copy of a valid government-issued ID for each visitor; the visitation room holds up to 4 people, including the client, and interpreters must provide interpretation credentials on letterhead.
• Video visits and legal calls: requested through ERO eFile, with appointments available 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday to Friday. The representative enters the platform (Zoom, Microsoft Teams or WebEx), meeting ID, passcode and link before picking a time; video calls start with ID validation on camera. If only a phone call is requested, indicate phone call only and include the phone number. Uploads required: a scan of the representative’s government ID, proof of active legal-representative status (such as a bar card), and the ERO eFiled G-28 (unless the visit is pre-representational); if a legal assistant is the only legal representative joining the call, ICE says a letter of authorization on the firm’s or organization’s letterhead and a scan of the assistant’s identification should also be attached, and appointments without the required attachments may be subject to cancellation. Appointments can be booked up to 2 weeks ahead and no later than 24 hours before, in 60-minute slots; no representative may have more than one 60-minute appointment with a detainee in a single day unless the facility approved a two-hour Extended-Time appointment. Only legal representatives, legal assistants and interpreters may take part; an officer stands outside the room, out of earshot but within eyeshot, and knocks 5 minutes before the end.
• When no slot is available or there is an exigent circumstance: ICE’s page lists StewartVTC@corecivic.com or the facility receptionist at (229) 838-5000. ICE’s 2025 virtual attorney visitation flyer for Stewart (PDF) prints a different address, StewartVTC@cca.com; the facility page is the more recently updated of the two (08/06/2026). The flyer also says representatives and their staff may not video or audio record during any virtual or in-person visit or call.

Immigration court and free legal providers (Stewart Immigration Court)

ICE says a list of pro bono (free) legal organizations, updated quarterly, is posted in all housing units, and that it is the detainee’s own responsibility to contact a provider for an appointment. ICE’s facility page does not name the immigration court, but EOIR’s administrative control list (updated October 1, 2026) lists Stewart Detention Center under the Stewart Immigration Court. EOIR’s court page gives its address as 146 CCA Road, PO Box 248, Lumpkin, GA 31815 — the facility’s own street address — and says the court is located in a DHS-controlled detention facility, with its entrance to the left of the detention facility’s main entrance. As of October 10, 2026, EOIR lists public hours of 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and window-filing hours of 8 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday to Friday except federal holidays, the phone 229-838-1324, the general-inquiry email Stewart.Immigration.Court@usdoj.gov, and free parking on site. The court named on a person’s own hearing notice is the one that counts; confirm it from the A-number through EOIR’s hotline at 1-800-898-7180. See also our Stewart (Lumpkin) Immigration Court page.

On the October 2026 edition of EOIR’s List of Pro Bono Legal Service Providers, the entries under Stewart Immigration Court (Lumpkin, Georgia) are:

EOIR states that it does not endorse any of the organizations or attorneys on its list.

EOIR’s Stewart Immigration Court page also publishes these rules (checked October 23, 2026):

• Faxes and electronic submissions: EOIR says the court does not accept them unless court staff or the immigration judge specifically requested the transmission. EOIR says unauthorized transmissions are excluded from the record and discarded without consideration or notice to the sender.
• Asylum EAD Clock: EOIR directs Stewart Asylum EAD inquiries and clock correction requests to Asylum.Clock.Stewart@usdoj.gov. EOIR requests the applicant’s name, alien registration number and the reason the requestor believes the clock needs adjustment. EOIR says this mailbox is only for Asylum EAD Clock requests and that the court will not respond to other communications sent there.

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 Atlanta 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 the service provided, or a misconduct complaint to the field office: Field Office Director, Enforcement and Removal Operations, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 180 Ted Turner Drive, SW, Atlanta, GA 30303, phone (404) 893-1210.
• ICE Office of Professional Responsibility (by mail): Director, Office of Professional Responsibility, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, 500 12th Street, SW, Suite 1049, Mailstop 5099, Washington, DC 20536-5005.
• ICE OPR Integrity Coordination Center: 1-833-4ICE-OPR or ICEOPRIntake@ice.dhs.gov.
• DHS OIG in writing: DHS Office of Inspector General, Attn: Office of Investigations - Hotline, 245 Murray Drive, Building 410 Stop: 2600, Washington, DC 20528 · fax (202) 245-5217 · DHSOIGHOTLINE@DHS.GOV.

A news reporter who wants to interview someone held here must apply in writing to the Atlanta Field Office, 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.

ICE inspection record

ICE’s Office of Detention Oversight (ODO), part of ICE’s Office of Professional Responsibility, inspected this facility on March 18–20, 2025 (ODO report, Compliance Inspection 2025-001-126); as of October 10, 2026 it is the most recent Stewart report on ICE’s ODO facility inspections page. What the report says:

• Who runs it: the facility opened in 2006 and is owned and operated by CoreCivic; ERO began housing detainees there in 2006 under ERO Atlanta. It operates under the Performance-Based National Detention Standards (PBNDS) 2011 (Revised 2016) and holds male and female detainees of low, medium-low, medium-high and high security classification for periods longer than 72 hours.
• Services and accreditation: Trinity Services provides food service, CoreCivic provides medical care, and Keefe Commissary provides commissary. The facility was accredited by the American Correctional Association in August 2023 and the National Commission on Correctional Health Care in January 2024, and was DHS PREA certified after a December 2023 audit.
• Findings: compliant with 20 of 28 standards reviewed; 12 deficiencies in the other 8 standards, 2 of them priority components (both under suicide prevention), none repeat. Among them: in 3 of 15 suicide-precaution logs, continuous monitoring was documented at intervals of 20 to 125 minutes, when the standard requires documentation every 15 minutes; medical staff training files lacked annual suicide-prevention training; one housing unit’s logbook showed no recreation from November 2024 to March 2025 and its posted schedule allotted 3 hours, against a standard of at least four hours a day; ERO Atlanta answered 11 of 25 detainee requests in 4 to 10 business days, against a 3-business-day standard; housing unit 3 held 405 male detainees with 18 toilets and 18 urinals, which ODO counted as a 15-to-1 ratio against a 12-to-1 requirement; and four deficiencies concerned use-of-force after-action reviews.
• Detainee interviews: ODO interviewed 29 detainees; none alleged discrimination, mistreatment or abuse, but 26 reported they did not receive 4 hours of daily recreation.
• Rating: Acceptable/Adequate, the same rating as at the previous rated inspection (fiscal year 2024), when ODO reviewed 29 standards and also found 12 deficiencies.

ODO redacts bed-capacity and population counts in the published report; for population, see the ICE statistics box above.

Additional findings in the ODO report of March 18–20, 2025:

• ODO found missing detainee information, such as nationality, age or hold-room entry or exit times, in 4 of 25 detention logs.
• ODO found that the handbook’s grievance section did not notify detainees of filing and resolution procedures covering assistance for impairments, disabilities, interpretation, translation, literacy and limited English proficiency.
• ODO found that the facility administrator did not participate in the use-of-force after-action review in 13 of 14 files.

287(g) agreements in Stewart County

This facility is in Stewart County, Georgia (per the U.S. Census Bureau geocoder for the address ICE publishes). ICE's 287(g) participating-agencies workbook, dated October 9, 2026, records 2 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 Georgia
• Stewart (Lumpkin) Immigration Court
• Other ICE detention facilities in Georgia
• All facilities under the Atlanta Field Office
• How to send money to someone in ICE detention