The Oklahoma Department of Corrections won’t release its full agreement with the federal government for services at a for-profit prison that houses immigration detainees.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/46085824

The for-profit prison company CoreCivic announced in October that it had entered into an agreement with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Oklahoma Department of Corrections to house immigration detainees at its Diamondback Correctional Facility in Watonga.

The Frontier and Oklahoma Voice claim in their lawsuit that the Department of Corrections is violating the Oklahoma Open Records Act for refusing to release its complete agreement with CoreCivic. The state agency also has an agreement with ICE that is part of the CoreCivic contract to monitor the company’s performance for the federal government.

The Department of Corrections released a partial version of its agreement with CoreCivic in November, which revealed that the state agency receives a monthly fee of $833,000 under the contract for detention and transportation services for detainees at the Watonga facility.  But the Department of Corrections still refused to release a copy of its intragovernmental services agreement with ICE, which would have more details about how the two agencies are cooperating.