(The Center Square) – A former federal prison with 1,320 beds in northeastern North Carolina, privately owned by Florida-headquartered GEO Group, will become a federal immigration processing center.

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s five-year deal with GEO was made by the company on Wednesday. The Rivers Facility, in the Hertford County community of Winton, had one of the highest percentages of inmate-on-inmate issues in a 2016 Department of Justice review and closed in 2021 following then-President Joe Biden’s directive to phase out contracts with privately owned prisons.

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