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COLORADO — GEO Group will keep running the Aurora immigration detention center through Dec. 15 under a short extension of a contract that was set to expire this month. This comes as a an ICE solicitation for "turnkey detention facilities" is nearing a final award.

1r2unyc.bsky.social

@1r2unyc.bsky.social

Are we fighting this new award of a turnkey facility? Who makes that award? The state?

Project Salt Box

@projectsaltbox.com

The turnkey facility award will be between ICE and a contractor — in this case, likely GEO Group. Our past reporting on it is at the link below. It's also entirely likely ICE could just buy the facility out from GEO Group, as they've done elsewhere this summer.

projectsaltbox.comMobile detention sites, courtrooms inside the jails, and a clause saying state law does not apply. What ICE's new detention solicitation revealsA contract solicitation posted Friday covers vans that hold people at arrest scenes, courtrooms inside private detention centers, and a clause declaring state law inapplicable.

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1r2unyc.bsky.social

@1r2unyc.bsky.social

Thank you.