The GEO Group, a Florida-based private prison corporation, announced Monday that it had sold the detention facilities, including the Adelanto ICE Processing Center, totaling 2,644 Beds.
The Trump administration agreed to pay $950 million to buy three California immigration detention facilities from GEO Group Inc., part of a broader push to give the federal government more direct control over the infrastructure behind its mass deportation campaign.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) purchased an immigration detention complex in Southern California for $950 million, adding to the Trump administration’s acquisitions of facilities used by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
