ICE Detention and Private Prisons

NPR reports that ICE, under the Trump administration, is expanding immigration detention to more than 65,000 people by rapidly reopening at least 16 shuttered state and federal prisons and former detention centers across a dozen states, many with documented histories of abuse and poor conditions. The piece highlights recent reopenings in Dilley, Texas; Ocilla, Georgia; and Baldwin, Michigan, notes that most sites are owned or operated by private prison firms like CoreCivic, LaSalle Corrections and GEO Group, and underscores concerns that oversight has been cut even as facilities with prior medical neglect and mistreatment are reused for a new detainee population.