As Biden gears up to seek re-election in 2024 immigration remains a political flashpoint. As a presidential candidate in 2020, Joe Biden pledged to end for-profit immigration detention. Instead, private prisons benefited
filed in 2022 on behalf of four women alleged that they were sexually assaulted by a male nurse in the facility.
While the Biden administration said in 2022 it would limit the use of Winn, the center currently houses 1,100 detainees.government reportA sign marks the entrance to the Moshannon Valley Processing Center, a former prison repurposed as an immigration detention facility, in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania, July 27, 2023. REUTERS/Quinn Glabicki
CoreCivic, GEO's biggest competitor, also sustained high revenues from ICE during Biden's term, according to corporate filings.that went into effect on May 11, more migrants encountered at the U.S.-Mexico border are being sent to detention centers for rapid asylum screenings. Nine centers are focused on the screenings, two officials said. All are privately run.
GEO Group subsidiary BI Incorporated manages one of the monitoring programs and GEO's chief operating officer told investors in February that the number of people under remote supervision peaked at more than 300,000 at one point last year. The monitoring program predominately drove GEO's revenue growth from ICE, a company spokesperson said.
Adelanto ICE Processing Center, a GEO Group-run lockup in California, currently houses only 16 detainees due to a COVID-related court order despite paying to maintain a minimum of 640 beds in 2023.to phase out the use of private prisons for federal detainees, a remote prison in central Pennsylvania run by GEO Group shut down. But just six months later, the company signed a contract to reopen the same complex as a 1,900-bed immigration detention center.
Detainees sit in a common area at the Moshannon Valley Processing Center in Philipsburg, Pennsylvania, July 27, 2023. REUTERS/Quinn Glabicki
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