The Eloy Detention Center is a private prison located in Eloy, Pinal County, Arizona, owned and operated by CoreCivic, formerly the Corrections Corporation of America, under contract with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

[1][2] The facility opened in 1994 and approximately 1,550 male and female individuals being held for immigration violations at a mix of minimum and medium security levels.

[4] ICE's internal Office of Detention Oversight investigated the death of Eloy detainee Manuel Cota-Domingo in 2012, and found serious issues with the quality of medical care provided by CCA.

[6] Since 2003, Eloy alone represented 9% of the total inmate deaths in all 250 detention facilities in the United States.

[7][8] As a result of passing all inspections despite the facility's high suicide rate, the National Immigrant Justice Center found ICE and the Obama administration of being complicit in hiding maltreatment at the center in a 2015 report.