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Original Date Announced
February 26, 2025ICE signed contracts with private prison companies GEO Group and CoreCivic to expand immigrant detention capacity.
2025.02.26 ICE Reopens Delaney Hall Facility in Newark, NJEffective Date
February 26, 2025Current Status
NoneOriginal Trump Policy Status
Status: Final/ActualTrump Administration Action: Agency DirectiveAgencies Affected: ICEAssociated or Derivative Policies
Documents
Trump-Era Policy Documents
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New Policy
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ICE Reopens Delaney Hall Facility in Newark, NJ
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ICE awards $1B contract to private prison firm for major immigrant detention center
Newsroom reports that ICE awarded a private prison company a 15-year contract worth $1 billion to detain up to 1,000 immigrants in New Jersey. Executives for one of the largest private prison companies, GEO Group Inc., told investors in an earnings call that they expect “unprecedented opportunities” under the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown by providing detention bed capacity and increasing electronic monitoring services of immigrants.
Newsroom further reports that "[t]he Newark detention center, Delaney Hall, will be the largest ICE processing facility and detention center on the East Coast....GEO has pushed for a contract with ICE to reopen that facility as a detention center and even sued New Jersey over its state law that bars private and public companies from contracting with ICE to detain immigrants."
Go to articleCoreCivic signs deal with ICE to expand immigrant detention capacity
Axios reports that private prison company CoreCivic signed a deal with ICE to expand detention capacity for immigrants at four of its prisons. CoreCivic said that it has expanded its contracts with ICE to accommodate up to 784 detainees at facilities in Mississippi, Nevada, Ohio and Oklahoma. CoreCivic will be able to expand immigrant detention at the 2,016-bed Northeast Ohio Correctional Center, its 1,072-bed Nevada Southern Detention Center, and its 1,600-bed Cimarron Correctional Facility in OK. In addition, CoreCivic has obtained a contract modification to allow ICE to use 252 beds at its 2,672-bed Tallahatchie County Correctional Facility in MS.
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