Bělá-Jezová Facility for the Detention of Foreigners
Jezová 1501, 294 21 Bělá pod Bezdězem · Bělá pod Bezdězem, Central Bohemian Region
Immigration detention, not accommodation
This is a place of custody pending removal. It is not accommodation, its places are not counted as accommodation capacity anywhere on this site, and it is shown apart from the reception sites.
In Czechia this facility is run by the same agency as the asylum facilities, SUZ.
Facility for the detention of foreigners at Bělá-Jezová, near Bělá pod Bezdězem in the Central Bohemian Region, run by the Czech Refugee Facilities Administration (SUZ). It is detention, not accommodation. AIDA says single women and families are placed here, while the Balková and Vyšní Lhoty facilities are exclusively for single men. Since 2019 the complex has also operated as a residential centre, which is listed separately. AIDA gives 200 beds in its table for 2025 and 220 in its text.
Key facts
- Type
- Facility for the detention of foreigners
- Operator
- Refugee Facilities Administration of the Ministry of the Interior (SUZ)
- Address
- Jezová 1501, 294 21 Bělá pod Bezdězem, Bělá pod Bezdězem, Central Bohemian Region
- Capacity (detention beds)
- 200 beds (as at 2025)AIDA's text gives 220 beds; its table and its total of 824 beds for the three facilities give 200. AIDA, Czech Republic, 2025 update (June 2026): beds in detention facilities, 2025.
- People counted there
- AIDA gives no count of the people there (occupancy at the end of 2025: not available), and the SUZ annual report gives none.
- Placed in 2025
- 65 of the 919 foreigners newly placed in detention (7.1%) were primarily placed here (SUZ Annual Report 2025).
- Status
- In use (status as at: 4 October 2026)Source: the SUZ page for this facility, accessed on the date shown.
- Opening
- Not stated in the sources used here. SUZ says the complex has also operated as a residential centre since 2019.
- Position on the map
- Derived by us from the published address, not a point published by SUZ.The residential centre and the detention facility share one address, Jezová 1501. Their pins are placed a short distance apart so that both can be selected; neither pin marks a particular building.
Background
Official finding: the Public Defender of Rights (the Czech ombudsman) visited the facility on 31 August 2015 and issued a report on 9 September 2015 (file no. 24/2015/NZ/OV). At the time of the visit the capacity had been raised from the standard 270 beds to 700. The report says that detained foreigners are not informed about their situation and do not understand why they are held in a facility whose conditions they describe as prison.
Reported incidents
The sources used for this page do not report an incident at this site.
Sources
- SUZ: Bělá-Jezová facility for the detention of foreigners (official page, accessed 4 October 2026)
- AIDA, Czech Republic: 2025 update (June 2026)
- Refugee Facilities Administration (SUZ), Annual Report 2025
- Public Defender of Rights (ombudsman), report 24/2015/NZ/OV on the visit of 31 August 2015 (report of 9 September 2015)
official source
The Refugee Facilities Administration (SUZ) runs the state asylum facilities and also detention. Capacity and occupancy come from the AIDA Czech Republic 2025 update (June 2026), which received them from SUZ: capacity is for 2025, and occupancy by centre is for the end of 2024 because figures for 2025 were not available. Each is dated on this page. Capacity is a number of places and not a headcount, and the occupancy figures are not current. Addresses are from SUZ's page for each facility, and positions are derived from those addresses. The cost published is for the whole agency, CZK 939.8m in 2025, detention and other services included, so no site shows a cost. Incidents come from news outlets, the police or official reports, each named and dated, with the stage that was reported. A facility that works like detention is labelled so.