Immigration and Customs Enforcement plans to shrink its network of more than 200 detention facilities 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 by GEO or CoreCivic.
David Keener, the ...