Samos, Aegean

Samos Closed Controlled Access Centre (CCAC)

Status

In use

2025

Type: Immigration detention centre (Administrative)

Custodial Authority: Not Available

Management: Not Available

Detains: Asylum seekers (administrative), Unaccompanied minors, Undocumented migrants (administrative)

Capacity Reported population Conditions complaints?
3650
3890

31 December 2023

YES

2024

Greece

31,975

Migration Detainees

30,631

Migration Detainee Entries

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FACILITY NAMES
Samos Closed Controlled Access Centre (CCAC)
Location

Country: Greece

City & Region: Samos, Aegean, Europe

Contact Information
Zervou Area, 83100, Samos

Also called: Zervou Refugee camp
Greek name: Κέντρο Υποδοχής & Ταυτοποίησης Ζερβού

ris.ccac.samos@migration.gov.gr
+30 213 138 3313 (Secretariat)
+30 213 138 3300 (Director)
+30 213 138 3301 (Deputy Director)

MANAGEMENT & BUDGET

Center Status
Status
Year
In use
2025
In use
2024
In use
2023
In use
2022
In use
2021
Pending opening
2020
Pending opening
2019
Facility type
Category
Type
Year
Administrative
Immigration detention centre
2018
National typology
Official Typology
Year
Closed Controlled Access Centre
2021
Outsourced services and non-state actors
Provider
Service
Year
[Unnamed private security company]
Security
2025
Operating Period
Year of entry
Year ceased
2021

DETAINEES

Demographics

Unaccompanied minors

2023

Disabled persons

2022

Adult men

2022

Adult women

2022

Families

2022

Accompanied minors

2022

Unaccompanied minors

2022
Categories of detainees

Undocumented migrants (administrative)

2024

Asylum seekers (administrative)

2024
Countries of Origin

Country #1 Sierra Leone

Country #2 Palestine

Country #3 Haiti

Country #4 Uganda

Country #5 Congo (Brazzaville)

2023
At-Risk Populations

Asylum seekers

2024

SIZE & POPULATION

Capacity (specialised migration-related facility)

Type Standard capacity

Capacity 3650

2025

Type Standard capacity

Capacity 3650

2023

Type Standard capacity

Capacity 3000

2022

Type Standard capacity

Capacity 300

2018
Reported Single-Day Migration Detainee Population at Facility (day)
Number
Date
3890
31 December 2023
398
30 December 2021

LENGTH OF DETENTION

Overstays

Reported Overstays Yes

2023

OUTCOMES

CONDITIONS

Overall Inspection Score

Deficient (“Deficient” or “At Risk”)

2024
Inadequate conditions
Inadequate Conditions
Obvs. Date
2024
2023
2023
2023
2023
2023

CARCERAL INDICATORS

Carceral Environment

Yes

2024

Yes

2022

Yes

2021
External Security Regime

High security

2024

Secure

2022

Secure

2018

STAFF

Mistreatment Reports

Yes

2022

SEGREGATION

Gender Segregation

No

2022

CELLS

COMMUNAL SPACE & ACTIVITIES

Possibility to Prepare Own Meals

No

2022

HEALTH

Overall assessment of facility health care provision

Deficient (“Deficient” or “At Risk”)

2024
Psychological Evaluation upon Arrival

No

2024

No

2022
Doctor on Duty

No Doctor on Duty

2024

No Doctor on Duty

2022
Nurse on Duty

No Nurse on Duty

2024

No Nurse on Duty

2022
Psychologist Visits

No regular visits

2024

No regular visits

2022
Barriers to care
Barriers to Care
Obvs. Date
Lack of patient privacy/confidentialityUnsanitary/inadequate detention conditionsInadequate food or water provision
2023

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