The GEO Group, a private prison operator, announced Thursday it entered into a contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement for a 1,800-bed facility in Baldwin, Michigan, at the former North Lake Correctional Facility.
The contract came as mass deportations have prompted the Trump administration to use Guantanamo Bay and El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, among other detention centers, to detain illegal immigrants.
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