Project Salt Box
Project Salt Box, Em Chapin, Michael Wriston, Mia BarragánInvestigative reporting on the money and contracts behind immigration detention, grounded in the public record.
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GEO Group pursues more detention facility sales to ICE after $950 million Adelanto deal
GEO Group, a private prison company based in Boca Raton, Fla., said on an investor call Thursday that it is likely to sell several more of its detention facilities to the federal government as soon as December.
George Zoley, GEO’s chairman...
CoreCivic urges ICE to move quickly on more facility purchases after Democrats’ historic midterm wins
The CoreCivic Houston Processing Center. (Photo: Patrick Feller under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license)
CoreCivic, the private prison company based in Brentwood, Tenn., urged U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement on...
A new congress puts Homeland Security on notice
Protestors outside the Baltimore ICE Field Office. (Photo: Michael Wriston)
Democrats won control of both chambers of Congress on Tuesday, a result that will give the party the committees that oversee the Department of Homeland Security wh...
GEO Group gets $1.5 billion contract to keep running Tacoma immigration detention center
(Photo: ICE)
The GEO Group, the private prison company that runs the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma, Wash., was awarded a contract Wednesday worth about $1.5 billion to keep operating the 1,575-bed facility for up to 10 years, a...
White House clears ICE to spend $7 billion on detention, deportations, and hiring in 2027
(Photo: Igor Omilaev. Illustration: Michael Wriston)
The White House budget office has released about $7 billion for immigration detention, deportations, and hiring for the budget year that runs through next September. It is holding back a...
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Public records enthusiasts. Tracking the flow of post-OBBBA homeland security procurements and government contracts.
Independent researcher and writer with a focus on immigration enforcement and federal procurement. Views are my own.
Independent data journalist and erstwhile photographer based in Baltimore, MD. Forever enamored by the liminal, the misunderstood, and the unconventional. Public record enthusiast at Project Salt Box. Views are my own.
Migrant, total liberationist, aspiring polyglot. Ardently, quietly, etc.
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