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ICE is reopening shuttered prisons as detention centers. Many have a troubled past

Activists rallied at the North Lake Processing Center in Baldwin, Mich., after it reopened as an immigrant detention center this year. In its past, the facility had been a federal prison and a juvenile detention facility.

In its push for more immigrant detention space, the Trump administration is reopening shuttered prisons in several states. Many of these facilities, closed amid allegations of abuse and mismanagement.

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