Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser on Wednesday sued the private company that runs the Aurora immigration detention center over its noncompliance with a state public health order. Since June, The GEO Group has refused access and information requests related to a confirmed tuberculosis case in the detention center it operates for U.S Immigration and Customs […]
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment issued a public health order on Thursday afternoon ordering The GEO Group to provide information about a recent tuberculosis case in an Aurora immigration detention center. It comes nearly two months after the Adams County Health Department issued an order on the same issue. GEO, the private […]
Six weeks after local officials issued a public health order concerning a confirmed active case of tuberculosis at an immigration detention center in Aurora, the private company that runs the facility still has not allowed access for health officials to complete a legally-required investigation. The result is a standoff between state and local government and […]
The Aurora City Council approved a statement Monday that demands the private company that runs the immigration detention center in the city cooperate with public health officials in an investigation of a tuberculosis case. “It’s in our interest to protect the public health of our community to be able to merely make a statement that […]
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will be reopening a for-profit prison in Winton, North Carolina, as one of the largest immigrant detention facilities on the East Coast, according to reports from the New York Times. The report cited internal ICE documents showing plans for a mass detention center in the former Rivers Correctional Institution with […]
