Angelo Zamora Concepcion v. Warden, Irwin County Detention Center, et al.

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA WAYCROSS DIVISION

ANGELO ZAMORA CONCEPCION, Petitioner, CIVIL ACTION NO.: 5:25-cv-191 v. WARDEN, IRWIN COUNTY DETENTION CENTER, et al., Respondents.

O RDE R Petitioner Angelo Concepcion (“Concepcion”), who is currently incarcerated at the Irwin County Detention Center in Ocilla, Georgia, filed, through counsel, a Petition for Writ of Habeas Corpus based on 28 U.S.C. § 2241. Concepcion seeks to challenge his detention at the Irwin County Detention Center, which is an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (“ICE”) facility in Irwin County, Georgia. Doc. 1.

It is prudent to address the venue of this action. District courts are authorized to grant writs of habeas corpus “within their respective jurisdictions,” 28 U.S.C. § 2241(a), and such writs “shall be directed to the person having custody of the person detained.” 28 U.S.C. § 2243.

Therefore, the proper party respondent is the “person who has the immediate custody of the party detained, with the power to produce the body of such party before the court or judge.” Rumsfeld v. Padilla, 542 U.S. 426, 434‒35 (2004) (citation omitted).

Because Concepcion is attacking his detention and the nature of that detention, he should have filed his Petition in the District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, where he is detained, rather than in this Court’s Waycross Division. 28 U.S.C. § 90(b); Ramirez v. Hastings, No. CV214-085, 2015 WL 1022363, at *2 (S.D. Ga. Mar. 9, 2015) (“[A] habeas petition under section 2241 generally is available only for challenging the execution of a sentence or the nature of confinement, ‘not the validity of the sentence itself or the fact of confinement,’ and 1s filed in the district of incarceration.”) (internal citation omitted); https://locator.ice.gov/odls/#/results, search using Concepcion’s A Number and country of birth showing Irwin County Detention Center as current detention facility (last visited Dec. 3, 2025). Accordingly, the Court DIRECTS the Clerk of Court to TRANSFER the instant cause of action to the District Court for the Middle District of Georgia, Valdosta Division. 28 U.S.C. § 90(b)(6).

SO ORDERED, this 3rd day of December, 2025.

BO UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF GEORGIA