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Here We Go Again: GEO Group’s Wack-a-Mole Prison Scheduled to Open for the 5th Time
Thursday , 20, March 2025 GEO Group, Punk Prison Leave a commentFor-profit “punk prison” North Lake Correctional Facility, owned by GEO Group, announced today that they have a shiny new federal prison contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, aka ICE. The prison corporation that maxed out contributions to the Trump campaign by February 2024 got its payoff. The 1,800-bed facility just north of Baldwin, in […]
Now ICE Leases TWO Prisons in Michigan
Thursday , 20, February 2020 GEO Group, Punk Prison, Trumpenreich Leave a commentOn February 12, 2020 the Lake County Board of Commissioners approved with unanimous vote to accept a contract from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The contract will allow ICE to move prisoners from North Lake Correctional Facility, owned by GEO Group, to the shuttered Lake County jail annex located in Baldwin. The annex up until […]
What Do GEO Group and Baldwin’s Sewer Have In Common? A Possible 22,000 Bed ICE Contract with the Federal Government
Sunday , 15, April 2018 Community 5 CommentsThe April 5, 2018 Lake County Star reported that GEO Group Inc., would pay for major upgrades to Baldwin’s sewer system in anticipation of receiving a contract with the federal government to house as many as 22,000 immigration detainees. North Lake Correctional Facility, located in Webber Township north of Baldwin, sits empty since last summer […]