A stand worth taking: The campaign against private prisons
Opinion
by 1 Comment Antonio Serrano, one of the organizers behind the WyoSayNo campaign against opening a private ICE jail in Evanston, describes the impetus for the fight.
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Second company abandons Evanston immigration jail project
The CoreCivic decision casts doubt on the future of the plan to build an immigration detention center that has divided the community for almost three years.
ICE jail: Gov backs local control, locals criticize commission
Uinta County residents confronted their county commissioners over the ICE detention facility proposed for outside Evanston last week, on the same day that Gov. Mark Gordon said the controversial plan is local officials’ call.
In Evanston on Oct. 15, county
ICE doubles size of proposed Wyoming immigration jail
The original request for proposals for a 500-bed jail to hold undocumented immigrants has been upped to 1,000 beds.
One prison company out, another in on Evanston ICE jail
In moves not previously revealed to the public, MTC, which brought immigration jail proposal to Evanston, is no longer interested, but CoreCivic is.
