REUTERS/Quinn GlabickiA White House spokesperson said Biden "continues to support moving away from the use of private detention facilities in the immigration detention system."
One facility evaluated as part of the Biden administration review was Stewart Detention Center, a Georgia lockup operated by the private prison company CoreCivic (CXW.N).
The administration has scaled back immigration detention in some ways.
ICE often pays to maintain a fixed number of beds at detention centers regardless of whether they are actually used.
But just six months later, the company signed a contract to reopen the same complex as a 1,900-bed immigration detention center.
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