Overview

• ICE plans to reopen CoreCivic’s Walsenburg prison, activate GEO Group’s Hudson facility and add 28 beds at Ignacio’s Southern Ute center while expanding Aurora’s cap to 1,530.
• The projected increase would push Colorado’s ICE detention capacity from 1,360 to just over 4,000 beds, giving the state the sixth-largest total nationwide.
• A DHS spokesman confirmed the documents are real but outdated and stressed that no contracts or site selections have been finalized.
• CoreCivic and GEO Group have advertised detention officer positions and said they remain in regular contact with ICE as they await potential contracts.
• Tribal leaders and local officials say they were not consulted on the proposals, and community groups have organized protests in Walsenburg.