The Bureau of Prisons publishes its facility directory at bop.gov. State Departments of Corrections publish their own facility lists. County jails are listed by sheriffs offices, often through state-level associations. ICE publishes its detention facility list, though it changes frequently as contracts shift. SleekRank reads CSV, JSON, REST, or Sheets, so once you've normalized the directory across systems, any source works for ongoing updates.

Inmate-lookup, commissary deposit, and video-visitation vendors change contracts regularly. Maintain a vendor column per service per facility and audit URLs quarterly with an automated link checker. Common vendors include JPay, Securus, GTL/ViaPath, Access Corrections, IC Solutions, and various state-specific systems. When a contract changes, update the relevant column and flush the cache to push the new URL to the public page immediately.

Yes. Add columns for attorney-visit hours, required documentation (bar card, state ID), advance-notice requirements, contact-visit availability, and any pandemic-era policy holdovers. Render through list and tag mappings. Attorney-visit rules vary widely (some facilities require 48-hour notice; others accept walk-ins for retained counsel), and clear per-facility information saves counsel hours of phone tag.

ICE detention is structured by field office (24 ERO offices) that assign jurisdiction over detained migrants. Maintain a field-office column per facility for ICE sites and cross-link to a separate page group at /ice/field-office/{slug}/ that lists every facility under each field office. Family-locator workflows for migrants in ICE custody depend heavily on field-office context, so this structure is essential.

Yes. Visiting hours often vary by day of week, by housing unit, by visitation type (in-person, video, contact, non-contact), and by special-status visitors (attorney, clergy, family of approved list). Store as a structured array per row and render through list mappings into a clear table. Some sites use selector mappings for facility-type-specific visiting structures.

Yes. Add columns for commissary vendor, deposit minimum, deposit maximum, and fee structure. Render through tag and list mappings. Deposit fees are a significant family expense at many facilities, and transparent surfacing of fee structures helps families make informed choices about deposit frequency and method (online versus mail-in money order).

Facilities close, convert, or transfer between operators (especially in the ICE contractor space). Maintain a status column for active, closed, or repurposed facilities. Closed facilities can render with a clear closure banner and a link to successor facilities (where applicable). For link-equity reasons, most family-services sites preserve closed-facility URLs as historical references with clear transition guidance.

Yes. Build separate page groups at /detention/state/{slug}/, /detention/type/{slug}/ (federal, state, county, ICE), and /detention/operator/{slug}/ (CoreCivic, GEO Group, state DOCs) from filtered registry views. Each index serves a different research audience: families navigate by state, journalists by operator or type. Cross-link between index and detail pages for both audiences.