Texas to get new 1,000-bed immigrant detention center under Trump
‘A private prison company has won a government contract to build a new 1,000-bed detention center in Conroe, Texas, under President Donald Trump’s deportation expansion plans.
GEO Group, one of the nation’s largest for-profit prison companies, announced Thursday they had won the $100 million contract. The detention center is expected to open in 2018 and is expected to generate approximately $44 million in annualized revenues, the company said, according to AP.
It will join three existing detention centers in the Houston metro area, making it a hub of immigration detainment and deportation.’
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