Colorado ICE Detention Capacity Set to Nearly Double Under New Federal Contract
By: Nico Brambila | Colorado Politics
The federal government has signed a five-year contract with private prison company GEO Group that will effectively double Colorado’s immigration detention capacity to about 2,700 beds.
Signed July 9, the contract comes a year after the Trump administration told Colorado’s congressional delegation it planned to reopen the shuttered Hudson Correctional Facility as an immigration detention center.
The deal is worth up to $528.6 million, federal contracting records show.
Located about 30 miles northeast of Denver in Weld County, the Hudson Correctional Facility is a medium-security prison that closed a decade ago.
The prison is operated by the GEO Group, while the Highlands REIT Inc. — a real estate investment firm — owns it....