GEO Group worker arrested in shooting of protester at Colorado ICE facility
GEO•ICE facilities face renewed scrutiny
ICE operations have come under renewed scrutiny in the aftermath of back-to-back fatal shootings by ICE agents conducting vehicle stops in Houston and Biddeford, Maine. In both cases, DHS has acknowledged that the two men killed, one a Mexican citizen, the other a Colombian national, were not the intended targets of the immigration enforcement operations underway at the time.
Many ICE detention and processing centers, some managed by GEO under contract for the agency, have come under fire from migrant advocates and Democratic politicians who say detainees are subjected to unsafe, unsanitary conditions and a lack of adequate medical care.
GEO is one of the largest private prison operators in the United States.
