Clearfield votes to extend Moshannon Valley Detention Center contract; Altoona Mirror, September 22, 2026

Melissa Perez-Carrillo, Altoona Mirror; Clearfield votes to extend Moshannon Valley Detention Center contract

"The Clearfield County Board of Commissioners voted 2-1 on Tuesday to approve a six-month contract extension for the operation of Moshannon Valley Processing Center.

Commissioners Tim Winters and John Sobel voted in favor of the extension, and Commissioner Dave Glass voted against...

n September 2021, the county entered into five-year agreements with ICE and GEO Group. It has served as a middleman between the government agency and the private contractor that owns and operates Moshannon. The setup offered a workaround to former President Joe Biden's 2021 executive order banning private federal prisons, which President Donald Trump reversed in 2025...

Since the facility reopened as an immigration detention facility, it has drawn criticism for poor-quality food, inadequate healthcare, and inhumane conditions. The facility's population has only risen as the Trump administration has escalated federal immigration policy and quickened deportations at a historic rate...

Migliozzi told Spotlight PA he thinks the federal government's approach to buying detention facilities circumvents accountability and further obscures their operations, as there is no precedent for states to regulate the federal government.

"If, in fact, the federal government purchases Moshannon," he said, "it will only become more difficult to monitor and expose what is happening inside, and that is very intentional on the part of the federal government."

Protest breaks out at South Texas immigration detention facility holding 5-year-old Liam Ramos; Houston Public Media, January 25, 2026

 

David Martin Davies, Texas Public Radio

, Houston Public Media; Protest breaks out at South Texas immigration detention facility holding 5-year-old Liam Ramos

"A protest broke out Saturday at the South Texas family detention complex in Dilley, about 70 miles south of San Antonio, after guards abruptly ordered attorneys to leave while detainees — many of them children — poured into open areas of the facility chanting “Libertad,” or “Freedom,” according to an immigration attorney who witnessed the event.

Immigration attorney Eric Lee said he was at the Dilley facility for a confidential visit with clients — an immigrant family of six, including five children — when guards began shouting for everyone in the waiting area to leave, citing what they described as “an incident.”

As the Michigan-based attorney walked toward his car, he said he heard what sounded like “hundreds of children” shouting, with voices he described as “high-pitched” and “urgent.” He said he could see children streaming from dormitory areas behind a chain-link fence and chanting “Libertad.”

Lee said clients he later spoke with told him the protest was triggered by concerns over the treatment of Liam Conejo Ramos, a 5-year-old who was taken into custody with his father in Minnesota earlier this week and transferred to the Dilley facility."