DOC commissioner: Minnesota banned private prisons. ICE is bringing one back anyway.
- Posted on June 17, 2026
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DOC commissioner: Minnesota banned private prisons. ICE is bringing one back anyway.
DHS apparently plans to reopen the private, for-profit Prairie Correctional Facility in Appleton as a 1,600-bed ICE detention center operated by the private prison company that owns it, DOC commissioner Paul Schnell writes.