ICE to Open 1,400-Bed North Carolina Detention Center by Year-End
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Updated · The New York Times · Jul 23
ICE to Open 1,400-Bed North Carolina Detention Center by Year-End
1 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Jul 23
Summary
Internal documents show ICE plans to open a roughly 1,400-bed detention center at the dormant Rivers Correctional Institution in Winton, North Carolina, by the end of 2026.
The GEO Group-owned site would be North Carolina's first ICE detention center and among the largest on the East Coast, with contract talks still underway.
The move shows ICE is still expanding detention capacity for the Trump administration's mass deportation campaign even after backing away from a warehouse-buying push.
June documents showed ICE planned to offload seven warehouses bought for more than $700 million, while DHS this month said it would not use a Berks County, Pennsylvania, warehouse.
Instead, ICE is leaning on private prison operators to repurpose existing complexes in states seen as more receptive to such facilities, including North Carolina, Colorado and Arizona.