Which specific ICE facility contracts list CoreCivic or GEO Group as awardees in federal procurement databases since 2025?
Executive summary
Federal procurement records and contemporaneous reporting show a clear list of ICE facility contracts awarded to or publicly announced by the two largest private prison operators in 2025: The GEO Group’s 1,000‑bed Delaney Hall in New Jersey, and multiple CoreCivic sites including California City Immigration Processing Center, the Midwest Regional Reception Center in Leavenworth, Kansas, the Diamondback Correctional Facility in Oklahoma, and the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]. Company filings, press releases and investigative tallies corroborate that these facility-level awards were created, renewed, or modified in federal procurement records during 2025 [7] [2] [3].
1. GEO Group — Delaney Hall (New Jersey): a 15‑year award recorded in procurement files
The GEO Group announced—and federal procurement summaries reported—a 15‑year fixed‑price contract with ICE to reactivate and operate a company‑owned 1,000‑bed Delaney Hall facility in New Jersey, a deal described as roughly $60 million per year and totaling about $1.2 billion on procurement filings dated in early 2025 [1] [2].
2. CoreCivic — California City Immigration Processing Center: letter contract then longer term activation
CoreCivic disclosed that ICE entered a six‑month Letter Contract on April 1, 2025, to resume operations at its 2,560‑bed California City Immigration Processing Center while the companies negotiated longer‑term contracts; press materials and company statements are reflected in procurement reporting and Congressional/press analyses of ICE contracting in 2025 [3] [5].
3. CoreCivic — Midwest Regional Reception Center (Leavenworth, KS): preliminary contract and local legal fights
CoreCivic announced a six‑month Letter Contract dated March 7, 2025 to begin activating its 1,033‑bed Midwest Regional Reception Center in Leavenworth, Kansas; reporting and local litigation over permits have been tied directly to the ICE contracting activity for that facility [3] [5].
4. CoreCivic — Diamondback Correctional Facility (Oklahoma): IGSA‑linked reopening noted in company filings
CoreCivic reported a new contract under an IGSA with the Oklahoma Department of Corrections and ICE to resume operations at its 2,160‑bed Diamondback Correctional Facility in 2025, with company projections of phased detainee intake beginning in 2026—this contract was publicly disclosed by the company and appears in contractor procurement summaries [4].
5. CoreCivic — South Texas Family Residential Center (Dilley, TX): family detention reactivation in procurement disclosures
Multiple sources, including civil‑rights filings and industry analyses, record CoreCivic activity to reopen the Dilley family detention center under new ICE contracting in 2025; FOIA disclosures and the company’s own announcements list Dilley among facilities proposed or placed under contract with ICE that year [5] [6].
6. Broader tally and patterns in federal procurement records: dozens of reopenings and at least ten facility actions
Investigations and database tallies compiled by outlets such as The Intercept and watchdog groups show that since the change of administration in 2025, at least ten facilities owned or operated by CoreCivic and GEO Group had contracts created, renewed or modified to detain immigrants, and dozens of other reopenings or IGSA actions were recorded in procurement and FOIA disclosures [7] [8] [9].
7. Limits of the reporting and what remains to be verified directly in FPDS/USAspending
This account relies on company press releases, investigative tallies and news reporting that cite federal procurement data; while those sources cite entries in federal procurement databases, direct querying of FPDS/USAspending records would be necessary to enumerate every contract action (award ID, obligation amounts, modification dates) since 2025—those granular database records are not reproduced in full in the collected reporting available here [1] [2] [7].