(BOP) - The U.S. Attorney's Office (USAO) for the Southern District of California honored the Federal Bureau of Prisons and other law enforcement agencies during the second annual Excellence in the Pursuit of Justice Award Ceremony on March 28, 2019. The award recognizes "local, state, and federal officers who achieved extraordinary results in their work to prevent crime, enhance community safety, and seek justice."
MCC San Diego (SDC) collaborated with the U.S. Border Patrol (USBP) and the U.S. Marshal Service (USMS) to implement a new immigration enforcement initiative. The increase in immigration-related prosecutions required more bed space options, and new strategies for tracking cases, managing files, and locating and moving thousands of defendants housed in geographically dispersed locations. The team (SDC, USBP, and USMS) worked with the entire court community to address and remove difficult obstacles and solve problems which resulted in the District being able to not only meet their immigration enforcement goals, but to exceed them.
MCC San Diego Executive Staff (Warden Louis Williams II, former AW Robert Garcia [retired], AW Art Dulgov [not pictured], and Senior Counsel Theresa Talplacido) and Senior Deputy Regional Director Dan Sproul, along with their USBP and USMS law enforcement partners accepted the award.
MCC San Diego is an administrative security metropolitan correctional center and houses pre-trial inmates for the Southern District of California. As an administrative facility, MCC San Diego houses inmates of all security levels; male and female inmates in pre-trial and holdover status and male inmates designated to serve their sentence.