ICE Contracts Southeast Georgia Prison to Create Largest Detention Center in U.S

ICE contracts Southeast Georgia prison to create largest detention center in U.S

FOLKSTON, Ga. (WSAV) - Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is expanding its processing center in Folkston, Ga. to double the current capacity, establishing the largest ICE detention center in the country. The federal government brokered a deal with private prison company GEO to contract a now- defunct prison in Folkston as an additional holding space existing ICE facility. "They're going to be brought together, and when they come together,…

Charlton County, ICE contract to expand processing center moves forward

Georgia Congressman Buddy Carter, a Pooler Republican, said he helped broker the contract between Charlton County and the federal government. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder (file)Georgia’s Charlton County is set to become home to the largest immigrant detention facility in the United States following an agreement between county officials and the federal Department of Homeland Security. Under a $47 million contract reached Friday by county and fe…

Folkston gaining 400 jobs with ICE immigration processing center expansion

By T.S. Carter | FOLKSTON, Charlton County, Georgia – Detaining people in a wide-ranging immigration crackdown has become big business in the United States, And nowhere will the detention business be bigger than in Folkston, a small South Georgia town 80 miles from Lakeland and 10 miles from the Florida line. On Facebook one resident called it a “game changer,” and that it is, with estimates that the expansion of the Immigration and Customs Enfo…