Locate Diamondback Correctional Facility Detainees

Diamondback Correctional Facility Overview

CoreCivic's Diamondback Correctional Facility page lists the facility at 1000 Diamondback Road in Watonga and identifies U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as the customer base. CoreCivic describes it as a multi-level security facility. ICE also has a proactive disclosure entry for a Diamondback Correctional Facility IGSA in Watonga, which supports treating Diamondback as a separate immigration detention facility for search and contact purposes.

Diamondback is physically in Blaine County, but it is not the Blaine County Jail. A person held at Diamondback should not be searched first through the sheriff roster unless there is reason to believe the person separately passed through county jail custody. County booking mugshots, NCIC video visits, Tiger Commissary, and county open-records requests belong to the Blaine County Jail. Diamondback records and contact rules belong to ICE, CoreCivic, EOIR, and federal immigration detention channels.

The CoreCivic facility page gives the best facility-specific visual source captured in the image manifest.

The screenshot reinforces that Diamondback's operator, customer base, and contact path differ from the Blaine County sheriff roster.

Diamondback Correctional Facility Capacity

The research file attributes a 2,160-bed figure to CoreCivic/news release reporting and related news coverage, while noting that the crawled CoreCivic facility page text did not state capacity. That distinction matters. Use the capacity figure with attribution, and do not treat it as a live detainee count. No official current detainee population for Diamondback was located in the research pass.

Diamondback also changes how Blaine County custody questions should be framed. A large ICE facility can be located in the same county as a small local jail, but the detainees are not part of the sheriff's public jail roster. The home page's county inmate population figures should keep those systems apart unless a source clearly reports one combined measure.

Search Diamondback ICE Detainees

The primary lookup route is the ICE Online Detainee Locator. USA.gov and ICE instructions describe two main search paths: A-number plus country of birth, or full name plus country of birth and date of birth. The locator is for current ICE custody. If the person was released, transferred, or is not in ICE custody, the locator may not return the record a family member expects.

1. Open the ICE Online Detainee Locator.
2. Search by A-number and country of birth if the A-number is known.
3. Use full first name, last name, country of birth, and date of birth for a biographical search.
4. Confirm whether the result points to Diamondback or another ICE facility.
5. Call Diamondback at (580) 614-2100 for facility-specific contact instructions if ICE confirms current custody.

Diamondback Facility Address and Phone

CoreCivic lists Diamondback Correctional Facility at 1000 Diamondback Road in Watonga. The public facility phone number in the research file is (580) 614-2100. Use that number for facility-specific questions after confirming current custody through ICE. Do not call Blaine County Jail for ordinary Diamondback visitation, money, or immigration detention records unless the person also has county jail custody.

Diamondback vs Blaine County Jail

The two Watonga facilities serve different legal systems. Blaine County Jail is a sheriff-operated county jail for pretrial detainees, municipal arrestees, and local short sentences. Diamondback is a CoreCivic facility connected to ICE immigration detention. The practical result is that families, lawyers, and records requesters need different search tools and different contact points.

Diamondback Visitation and Attorney Contact

CoreCivic's facility page references visitation and contact instructions, including attorney visitation instructions and Talton Private Messaging for Attorneys. The research file did not capture a full public schedule or rule set. For that reason, Diamondback visitor instructions should be checked through the CoreCivic facility page and by phone before anyone travels to Watonga.

Diamondback Mail and Money Rules

Specific Diamondback mail and money procedures were not fully captured in the official pages reviewed for the research file. That gap should be stated plainly. Do not import Blaine County Jail's NCIC, Tiger Commissary, or county mail rules into Diamondback content. Immigration detention mail, phone, messaging, attorney access, and money procedures must come from CoreCivic, ICE, or the facility itself.

Diamondback Contract and Reopening

Diamondback became a major Blaine County detention issue because of its reopening path. CoreCivic announced a new contract award for Diamondback with a contract commencing September 30, 2025, a five-year term, and possible extension by bilateral modification. The release said CoreCivic expected to begin receiving detainees in the first quarter of 2026, with full ramp estimated in the second quarter of 2026.

Oklahoma Board of Corrections minutes from September 24, 2025 state that General Counsel Kari Hawkins presented information about a private prison contract with CoreCivic for Diamondback in Watonga and that the board approved ODOC entering the contract by majority vote. ICE's proactive-disclosure page and CoreCivic's customer-base listing are the strongest official signals for the immigration detention use of the facility.

Federal Immigration Records for Diamondback

ICE detention records and immigration court records do not work like county jail records. The ICE locator gives current custody search results. EOIR controls immigration court scheduling and administrative control lists. BOP is a separate federal prison locator and should be used only for federal criminal custody, not ordinary ICE detention at Diamondback.

If a detainee also has a criminal case in Oklahoma or federal court, those records may exist outside the ICE locator. That does not make the sheriff roster the right place to search Diamondback custody. Search the custody system first, then use court records for case filings, hearing dates, and outcomes.