ICE Reportedly Considering Buying Immigrant Detention Facilities, Other Options to Maintain Capacity in Pa.
The purchases give private prison companies new long-term contracts as ICE seeks more detention capacity before existing deals expire.
- The Trump administration has spent about $2.2 billion buying four privately owned immigration detention centers over the past two months, shifting facilities in California, Minnesota, and Kansas into federal hands while allowing CoreCivic to continue operating them.
- In mid-July, ICE published a request for information on "turn-key detention services" across four regions, including Pennsylvania, as the agency evaluates options to ensure continued detention capacity when existing contracts expire.
- Clearfield County currently acts as a middleman between ICE and GEO Group for the Moshannon Valley Processing Center under a contract expiring in late September. Local activists worry ICE may bypass county oversight entirely.
- Last week, Democratic Representatives Chris Deluzio, Madeleine Dean, and Summer Lee wrote to ICE and GEO Group demanding answers on GEO's "failure to comply with federal standards of adequate staffing and medical care to detainees."
- GEO Group founder and CEO George Zoley told shareholders last week the company is "engaged in an active process for the sale of several of our turnkey facilities" while retaining long-term management contracts.
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ICE reportedly considering buying immigrant detention facilities, other options to maintain capacity in Pa.
Activists worry ICE might buy Moshannon Valley Processing Center or contract directly with GEO Group and cut out Clearfield County and its “minor” oversight.
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ICE considering buying immigrant detention facilities, other options to maintain capacity in Pa.
Activists worry ICE might buy Moshannon Valley Processing Center or contract directly with GEO Group and cut out Clearfield County and its “minor” oversight.
ICE ‘evaluating options’ for immigrant detention in PA
CLEARFIELD — In mid-July, ICE published a request for information on “turn-key detention services” for four regions across the country, including central Pennsylvania, where it already has the largest immigration detention facility in the Northeast. Local activists worry ICE is either trying to contract directly with GEO Group — which owns and operates Moshannon Valley Processing Center — or even potentially buy the facility. When asked about wh…
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