A private prison company has been awarded almost $26 million to open a new detention facility in the town of Marana — just northwest of Tucson.
The Utah-based Management & Training Corporation, or MTC, operates several prisons and ICE facilities around the United States. This Marana site is an old state prison that was run by MTC before Arizona severed that contract and shut it down in 2023.
It was sold back to the company last year for $15 million.
MTC directed questions about who would be detained at the facility and how it plans to expand without causing overcrowding to DHS. The agency did not respond to questions in time for publication.
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The standoff began Oct. 5, when Border Patrol agents swarmed a protest camp situated in and around a cottonwood tree slated for removal to make way for two steel border walls — the last of a border-hugging grove on the U.S. side that was estimated to be as much as 250 years old. -
His comments come after the Arizona Sheriff’s Association accused his office of refusing requests for assistance from Border Patrol. -
The Arizona Sheriff’s Association issued an open letter calling out the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office over its response to the public safety concerns surrounding the border wall construction in that area. -
Thousands of refugees in the U.S. lost health coverage on Oct. 1 as new Medicaid eligibility rules took effect. In Arizona, unlike in most states, even children and pregnant women are being dropped. -
On Monday, dozens of agents swarmed a stretch of private land where the activists had been camped in and around a centuries-old cottonwood tree. Contractors tore down the tree and agents made multiple arrests.
