Sursee, Canton Lucerne

Sursee "Big Yard" Deportation Prison (Grosshof Ausschaffungsgefängnis Sursee)

Status

Closed
(or ceased migrant detention operations)

2010

Type: Immigration detention centre (Administrative)

Custodial Authority: Canton Lucerne, Amt für Migration

Management: Not Available

Detains: Adult men, Undocumented migrants (administrative)

Capacity Reported population Conditions complaints?
14
No Data
No Data
Switzerland

3,284

Immigration detainees (2018)

Not Available

Estimated detention capacity (2020)

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GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS

Contact Information
Centralstrasse 24 6210 Sursee
Tel. 041 921 28 37
Fax. 041 921 28 52
Center status

Status Closed (or ceased migrant detention operations)

2010

Status In use

2008
GDP facility typology

Category Filter Administrative

Type Immigration detention centre

2008
Operating period

Year of Entry 2003

Year Ceased

National typology

OPERATIONAL CHARACTERISTICS

Security Regime

Security Level Secure

2008
Demographics

Name Adult men

2008
Categories of detainees

Name Undocumented migrants (administrative)

2008
Estimated capacity (administrative immigration detention facility)

Type Standard capacity

Capacity 14

2011
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Outsourced services and non-state actors
Armed guards
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