Jim Pillen’s plan to repurpose the state prison in McCook into an ICE detention center, which he announced Aug. 19. State senators have said the McCook facility, which opened in 2001, was originally designed for 100. Closed-door briefingJuarez is not the only state senator to have recently visited the McCook facility. Two members of the Legislature’s Judiciary Committee, State Sens. She said she also wants to know if the proposed ICE detention center would continue to offer, as do state prisons, mental and other health care services.