Leros

Leros Closed Controlled Access Center (CCAC)

Status

In use

2025

Type: Not Available

Custodial Authority: Not Available

Management: Not Available

Detains: Adult men, Asylum seekers (administrative), Undocumented migrants (administrative)

Capacity Reported population Conditions complaints?
2150
2192

31 December 2023

YES

2024

Greece

31,975

Migration Detainees

30,631

Migration Detainee Entries

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FACILITY NAMES
Leros Closed Controlled Access Center (CCAC)
Location

Country: Greece

City & Region: Leros, Europe

Contact Information
Greek name: Κλειστή Ελεγχόμενη Δομή Λέρου
Lepida, Leros, 85400

ris.ccac.leros@migration.gov.gr
+30 213 138 3002 (Secretariat)
+30 213 138 3000 (Director)
+30 213 138 3001 (Deputy Director)

MANAGEMENT & BUDGET

Center Status
Status
Year
In use
2025
In use
2024
In use
2023
In use
2021
National typology
Official Typology
Year
Closed Controlled Access Centre
2024
Operating Period
Year of entry
Year ceased
2021

DETAINEES

Demographics

Adult men

2023

Accompanied minors

2022

Unaccompanied minors

2022

Families

2022

Adult women

2022

Adult men

2022
Categories of detainees

Asylum seekers (administrative)

2025

Asylum seekers (administrative)

2023

Undocumented migrants (administrative)

2023
Countries of Origin

Country #1 Syria

2023
At-Risk Populations

Asylum seekers

2023

SIZE & POPULATION

Capacity (specialised migration-related facility)

Type Standard capacity

Capacity 2150

2025

Type Standard capacity

Capacity 2150

2023

Type Standard capacity

Capacity 2140

2022
Reported Single-Day Migration Detainee Population at Facility (day)
Number
Date
2192
31 December 2023

LENGTH OF DETENTION

Detention Timeframe (long, medium, short)

Length Medium-term (4-20 days)

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
External Security Regime

High security

2024

STAFF

SEGREGATION

CELLS

Detainees Per Cell

8

2023

COMMUNAL SPACE & ACTIVITIES

HEALTH

Overall assessment of facility health care provision

Deficient (“Deficient” or “At Risk”)

2024
Barriers to care
Barriers to Care
Obvs. Date
Unsanitary/inadequate detention conditionsInadequate food or water provision
2023

MONITORING & ACCESS

TELECOMMUNICATIONS

NEWS & TESTIMONY

2023

Testimony recorded by Border Violence Monitoring Network/Detention Landscapes: “Very disgusting, not organised or clean” and that “there is a really high fence and barbed wire on the top.” .... “Even if you ask a policeman to take a picture of a document with his phone they won’t.”... “[The officers] broke our phone cameras before we entered the place.”... He continued: “[The guards] don’t call you by your name but by the number that they give you when you enter this place.”...

(See: https://detentionlandscapes.uwazi.io/en/entity/a73yiaqhjc)