More than 200 people rallied in Grand Rapids on April 17, to protest the opening of GEO Group’s for-profit ICE detention center in Baldwin. Photo by José Guadalupe Jiménez Jr
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BALDWIN—A village council meeting was unusually packed on May 12 as people across the lower peninsula called for officials to stand against the reopening of an immigrant detention center just north of Baldwin. The 1,800-bed, maximum-security North Lake Correctional Facility, owned by the for-profit prison corporation Geo Group, would become the largest such facility in the Midwest and second-largest in the nation…