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Feb 27, 2025 Trump administration awarded a $1 billion, 15-year no-competitive-review contract to Geo Group to operate an ICE detention facility Corroborated Economic Structure
A massive long-term contract to a private prison company to expand detention capacity, despite legal challenges and a state law barring such facilities, illustrates profit-driven expansion of immigration detention.
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- Trump administration awards $1 billion, 15-year contract to Geo Group for Delaney Hall ICE detention — The Trump administration in February awarded a $1 billion, 15-year contract to private prison company Geo Group to operate the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in New Jersey. The facility, recently reopened, has a capacity of 1,000 detainees and is part of the administration's expansion of detention infrastructure to support mass deportation operations. The contract was awarded despite ongoing legal challenges to the facility's operation and a 2021 New Jersey state law barring immigration detention.
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Week 3 – 2025-02-01–2025-02-07
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