Trump administration to expand ICE detention significantly on East Coast with new facility: Report
The prison closed in 2021, and planners are looking to get it up and running by December. The people of Hertford County deserve jobs with dignity that support long-term investment in our rural communities, not jobs that rely on the suffering of vulnerable communities.
- ▪The prison closed in 2021, and planners are looking to get it up and running by December.
- ▪The people of Hertford County deserve jobs with dignity that support long-term investment in our rural communities, not jobs that rely on the suffering of vulnerable communities.
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The Trump administration is looking to expand immigrant detention space dramatically on the East Coast with plans to open a 1,400-bed facility in North Carolina by the year’s end, according to a new report.Federal officials have brought in a private company, GEO Group, to convert Rivers Correctional Institution in Winton, North Carolina, into the agency’s newest detention center for illegal immigrants who have been arrested by ICE and are going through court proceedings to be deported, according to the New York Times. The prison closed in 2021, and planners are looking to get it up and running by December.
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