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Companies that own and operate private prisons and detention facilities
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...
As of a TRAC analysis dated April 14, 2025, ICE had contractual bed capacity nationwide of 62,913 across 181 authorized detention facilities, while the agency held 48,056 people the prior night—an ave...
ICE is not literally unregulated—the agency operates under federal law, internal oversight offices, detention standards, and Congressional authority—but multiple recent reports and watchdog analyses s...
Congress authorized a roughly $75 billion multi‑year infusion for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), with reporting and legislative text consistently showing the bulk split between expanded de...
Alternatives to Detention (ATD) programs are associated with very high measured compliance with ICE check‑ins and court appearances in multiple pilots and official reports, and they are substantially ...
Intergovernmental Service Agreements () are a distinct procurement pathway uses to buy detention bed space by renting from state and local governments rather than by direct federal contracts subject t...
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...