Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed into law Friday a bill that authorizes the state of Michigan to transfer the Detroit Detention Center to the city.

The Detroit Detention Center will now be fully staffed and managed by the city of Detroit, freeing up staff and resources for the Michigan Department of Corrections.

The GEO Group, a private prison operator, announced Thursday it entered into a contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement for a 1,800-bed facility in Baldwin, Michigan, at the former North ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and private prison operator GEO Group have brokered an agreement to open a federal immigrationdetention center immediately in central Michigan, the company ...

The detention center was designed and built by GEO Group in 1997, and most recently held a contract for the Federal Bureau of Prisons from 2019 to 2022, according to company records.