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DHS buys two more detention centers in California for $950 million

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The Department of Homeland Security has purchased two immigrant detention facilities in Adelanto for $950 million, according to the private prison corporation that sold them. The sale by the GEO Group, a Florida-based government contractor, follows a $1.5-billion sale over the summer of two other California detention facilities by GEO’s competitor, CoreCivic of Tennessee. The…