Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to shrink its network of more than 200 detention facilities — most of them privately operated — to just 34 government-owned sites, according to local officials briefed this week on the plan, a move that would affect longtime private prison giants like
If carried out, the shift would replace the current patchwork of local jails and privately run prisons with a centralized system of larger facilities, most of them industrial warehouses, owned by the Department of Homeland Security. The majority of people currently in ICE custody are in facilities run ...