Baldwin

Protesters oppose the reopening of the North Lake Correctional Facility, which is now operating as a federal immigration processing center under GEO Group. Activists call the facility a profit-driven system that exploits vulnerable communities, calling for its closure.

North Lake Correctional Facility, near Baldwin, accepted its first immigration detainees Monday, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

In Lake County — population 12,000 — a new ICE facility is opening in a shuttered private prison, promising to create hundreds of jobs in the poorest county in the state. Many residents have doubts about whether the jobs will last.