T. Don Hutto Residential Center is an immigrant detention facility in Taylor, Texas, operated by the Corrections Corporation of America.[1] under a contract by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). A former medium-security state prison, it and a smaller center in Leesport, Pennsylvania are the only two facilities in the United States authorized to hold non-Mexican immigrant families and children on noncriminal charges. Its purpose is to hold immigrant families together while they await the outcome of their immigration hearings or their return to their home countries.[2] It began operating in the summer of 2006. Previously, illegal immigrants with children would be released with a notice to appear before an immigration judge. While it has 512 total beds in the facility, it currently houses approximately 150 individuals, about half of which are children. The detainees are a diverse group, including families of all sorts and of all ages.