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ICE operated a large, dispersed network of detention facilities in and before 2024, ranging from dedicated ICE processing centers to county jails holding immigration detainees; reporting and advocacy ...
Public reporting and company disclosures show that both and own and control multiple facilities that are now in use or targeted for reopening, but open-source accounts vary between naming companies as...
The 2025 budget surge funneled tens of billions of dollars into ICE’s enforcement and detention missions, and the early spending went overwhelmingly to large private detention firms and a cluster of s...
Reporting shows that the federal government and ICE are actively expanding detention capacity: new facilities have opened, ICE is converting or contracting to use warehouses and other sites, and draft...
The largest for are the traditional private‑prison operators—led by and —while a separate group of logistics, surveillance and services firms hold the largest transport, monitoring and support awards;...
have been redirected on a massive scale to expand , with congressional legislation and appropriations driving funding from roughly $3 billion in FY2019 to projections exceeding $15 billion in FY2026 a...
After H.R.1’s passage ICE overwhelmingly expanded bed capacity not by running long competitive procurements but by leaning on contract modifications, guaranteed‑minimum “bed quota” provisions, expedit...
Members of Congress have reported repeated denials of access to ICE detention sites — including specific incidents in Aurora, Adelanto, Broadview, Baltimore and Newark — while ICE and DHS have issued ...
Since 2020, congressional committees and individual lawmakers have repeatedly raised alarms about ICE detention practices, holding hearings on facility conditions during COVID-19 (House Homeland Secur...
Multiple contemporaneous corporate and local news reports confirm that received a 15‑year, fixed‑price contract from ) to operate the 1,000‑bed processing center in , in early 2025 . None of the provi...
’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act () dramatically raised funding for detention—$45 billion authorized over several years and a roughly three- to four‑fold jump in annual detention appropriations— and sourc...
Multiple reputable outlets report that for people in custody in two decades, with counts clustering around 30–32 deaths; however, the available reporting and public records in the provided sources do ...
The One Big Beautiful Bill (H.R.1) funnels roughly $45 billion toward building and operating new immigration detention capacity over several years, effectively more than doubling ICE’s detention budge...
Available reporting does not publish a definitive 2025 list ranking ICE detention centers by the number of lawful permanent residents (LPRs) they hold; public sources document rising overall detention...