| 2026-10-14 | D.D.C. Hears Agency Witness Testimony on Guantanamo Immigration Detention; Government's Filed Authority Is the Removal Statute and the Secretary's General Power
7 src ICE | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-06 | Detainees at GEO-Run Folkston ICE Center in Georgia Begin Hunger Strike; Advocates Estimate at Least 73, the Guardian Reports
6 src GEO Group · Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-10-05 | Russian Military Court Sentences Activist Leonid Melekhin to Six Years After Failed US Asylum Bid and Return to Russia
2 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-09-15 | NJ Attorney General Reviewing Claims ICE Used the Roxbury Warehouse, a Site Covered by a May 12 Court-Ordered Stipulation Limiting Conversion Activity
5 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | reported |
| 2026-08-28 | ICE Puts Twelve Somali Men on a Plane Told They Were Bound for Somalia; They Landed at Guantanamo Bay
4 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-16 | 140+ Detainees Launch Fourth 2026 Hunger Strike at Tacoma as Congresswomen Inspect and ICE Weighs Taking Facility From GEO
3 src GEO Group | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-16 | Journalist Shot by Federal Agents Nears 300 Days at Adelanto With Untreated Wound After Charges Dismissed With Prejudice
2 src Adelanto ICE Processing Center · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · GEO Group | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-13 | At Least 24 Deaths in ICE Custody in 2026, On Pace to Exceed 2025's Two-Decade Record of 33
4 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · National Immigration Project | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-13 | Colorado Issues Public Health Order 26-02 Compelling GEO Group to Surrender Aurora ICE Tuberculosis Records
4 src GEO Group · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-12 | ICE Confirms Third Delaney Hall Death — Jose Chajon-Raxon — Citing New Policy Ending Reports of Post-Release Detainee Deaths
3 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · GEO Group · Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-08-11 | DHS Scraps 8,500-Bed Socorro Mega-Detention Plan and Transfers $123M Warehouses to GSA for Sale — 9th of 11 Abandoned
4 src Department of Homeland Security · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement · General Services Administration · Kristi Noem | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-30 | Ninth Circuit Rejects Trump Administration's Mandatory Detention Expansion, Joining Four Other Circuits Against the Fifth and Eighth
3 src Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals · Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-20 | ICE Issues 14-Site RFEI Signaling Shift from Renting to Owning Detention Infrastructure
3 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · U.S. Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-07-01 | ICE Arrests 10,000 in Five-Day Surge as LaSalle Signs 528-Bed Family Detention Contract in Louisiana
4 src Immigration and Customs Enforcement · LaSalle Corrections · Department of Homeland Security | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-30 | ICE Contracts a LaSalle Corrections Nonprofit for a 528-Bed Family 'Staging' Facility at the Nation's Largest Deportation Flight Hub
3 src LaSalle Corrections · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-30 | Lawyers Say ICE Arrests Three at NYC Immigration Courts Despite Judge Castel's May 18 Stay and the June 23 California Vacatur
4 src ICE · Make the Road New York | | confirmed |
| 2026-06-23 | Whatcom County, WA Council votes 5-2 for one-year moratorium on new immigration detention facilities
3 src U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) | | confirmed |
| 2026-03-30 | 14th ICE Detainee Dies in 2026 as Detention System on Track for Deadliest Year Since 2004 | | |
| 2026-03-10 | Leavenworth Commission Votes 4-1 to Let CoreCivic Reopen the Prison a Judge Called a 'Hellhole'
3 src CoreCivic · U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement | | confirmed |
| 2025-07-04 | Budget Bill Allocates $45 Billion for Private Immigration Detention Centers, 308% Increase
3 src Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Homeland Security · ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) | | confirmed |
| 2024-11-06 | Private Prison Stocks Soar After Trump's 2024 Victory: CoreCivic Up 29%, GEO Group Up 42% in Single Session
4 src Donald Trump · CoreCivic · GEO Group · Tom Homan · +1 |
| confirmed |
| 2021-01-26 | Biden Signs Executive Order 14006 to End Federal Private Prison Contracts, But Excludes Immigration Detention
4 src Joe Biden · Department of Justice · Bureau of Prisons · U.S. Marshals Service · +3 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-02-23 | Private Prison Stocks Soar as CoreCivic, GEO Donate $2.8M to Trump
3 src CoreCivic · GEO Group · Jeff Sessions · Donald Trump · +2 |
| confirmed |
| 2017-02-01 | McKinsey Redirected from Obama-Era ICE Reform to Trump Immigration Crackdown Consulting
6 src McKinsey & Company · Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) · Donald Trump · U.S. Department of Homeland Security |
| confirmed |
| 1987-01-01 | Wackenhut Corrections Wins First Federal Immigration Detention Contract in Aurora, Colorado
4 src Wackenhut Corporation · George C. Zoley · Immigration and Naturalization Service · Reagan Administration |
| confirmed |
| 1984-01-22 | First Fully Privatized Prison Opens in Houston Under CCA Contract with Immigration and Naturalization Service
3 src Corrections Corporation of America · Immigration and Naturalization Service · Thomas W. Beasley |
| confirmed |
| 1983-01-01 | Reagan Administration's Mass Immigration Emergency Plan Mandates 10,000 Detention Beds — First Systematic Detention Infrastructure Requirement in U.S. History
4 src Ronald Reagan · Immigration and Naturalization Service · Department of Justice · Kenneth Starr |
| confirmed |
| 1981-07-01 | AG Smith Declares Detention-as-Deterrence Doctrine, Eliminating Bond Rights for Asylum Seekers
5 src Ronald Reagan · Immigration and Naturalization Service · Department of Justice · Haitian refugees |
| confirmed |
| 1980-10-01 | INS Opens Krome Avenue Detention Center on Decommissioned Nike Missile Site, Locking In Detention as Default Immigration Response
4 src Immigration and Naturalization Service · Jimmy Carter · Ronald Reagan · Haitian refugees |
| confirmed |