Appleton, MN

City of Appleton leaders are weighing a proposed deal in which the operator of the new immigrant detention center at the city's old prison would help pay for city services. The post Appleton ICE detention center operator may help cover cost of city’s public services first appeared on KSTP.com 5 Eyewitness News.

At a special meeting Monday, the mayor and city councilors discussed terms outlined in a memorandum of understanding. The funds would support city services to the reopened prison.

CoreCivic, the company operating a 1,600-bed facility that will begin housing Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees this fall, is offering to ...

Plus: CoreCivic will pay Appleton $1.26 million a year; school funding increase on the ballot; please stop 20 feet from school buses; and more. The post Coming soon: Mr. Autumn Man appeared first on MinnPost.

Legal experts and DFL lawmakers look at potential state action as CoreCivic begins hiring for the 1,600-bed facility in Appleton, Minnesota.

The rural Minnesota facility will create jobs, but Minnesota needs to come to terms with the costs. The post Appleton debate needs to recognize sexual assault is common in ICE detention appeared first on MinnPost.

APPLETON, M.N. (KELO.com) -A showdown is brewing in Appleton, Minnesota over the reopening of a prison as a facility for ICE to hold illegal immigrant...

The rural advocacy organization says the U.S. Bureau of Prisons has not complied with a Freedom of Information Act request made in January for a 2014 environmental and economic assessment.

The moral quandary over the prison that will detain immigrants swept up by ICE is now also an economic one. The post Taxes, jobs and housing: Appleton has some other questions about the prison reopening under federal control appeared first on MinnPost.

A Republican legislator who fielded questions Thursday about the reopening of a detention center in Appleton said the discussions were respectful, even though people have strong opposing views. State Rep. Paul Anderson co-hosted a town hall forum on the Appleton Detention Facility — formerly known as the Prairie Correctional Facility — which will begin housing people detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers later this year. The federal government bought the 1,600-bed facili