$529 Million for Cages: ICE's New Colorado Detention Center and the Private Prison Industry That Profits From Human Suffering

The GEO Group — a private prison corporation with a history of slave labor, medical neglect, and abuse — signed a $528.6 million contract to reopen a shuttered prison in Hudson, Colorado as a 1,188-bed ICE detention center. The acting ICE director is a former GEO executive. Colorado's detention capacity will nearly double to 2,720 beds.