The Adelanto ICE Processing Center (Adelanto) is located in the High Desert of California. Adelanto is a 1,940-bed facility serving one of GEO’s largest contracts for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The Adelanto GEO Transport, Inc. (GTI) transportation team has five drivers who all work under the supervision of Transportation Manager Henry House. The Adelanto GTI transportation team may be one of the smallest units within GTI, but the unit remains one of the busiest.
The Adelanto GTI transportation team is responsible for the transportation to and from San Bernardino County/Los Angeles ICE office, Orange County Sheriff's Jail, Santa Ana City Jail and Santa Ana ICE/ERO at the Santa Ana Federal Building, and the Otay Mesa Detention Center. Most recently, Adelanto has been providing transportation services to and from the Adelanto airlift on a weekly basis.
GTI and GEO Corrections & Detention conduct all offsite medical appointments, medical emergencies, and assist each other in exchanging vehicles and staff to complete off-site hospital staffing, while detainees are receiving care at an outside hospital.
The entire Adelanto fleet consists of twenty vehicles, nine vans, one ADA van, three freightliners, seven sedans, and two pickup trucks.
Each year, Adelanto must successfully pass the intense vehicle safety and driver qualification inspection by the California Highway patrol. The inspections entail California Inspectors picking a percentage of vehicles, maintenance files to those vehicles, driver qualification files, and inspecting them to ensure the Adelanto GTI transportation team is operating in accordance with all state and federal guidelines. These inspections are very detail oriented leaving no room for errors or discrepancies. The Adelanto GTI transportation team strives to receive the highest rating of “Satisfactory” each year. To say Adelanto is a very busy facility would be an understatement; the Adelanto GTI transportation team goes the extra mile on a daily basis and represents GTI to the highest degree by providing safe and secure transportation second to none.
