The Moshannon Valley Processing Center is the largest ICE detention facility in the Northeast.
The Moshannon Valley Processing Center (Moshannon) is an immigrant detention facility in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, operated under an intergovernmental service agreement (IGSA) between U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and private prison corporation GEO Group.
Once a federal detention facility, it was converted into an ICE detention center in 2021, making it the largest in the Northeast — with the capacity detain to 1,876 people each day, many of them asylum seekers and long-time U.S. residents.
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“Show me your budget and I’ll tell you what you value.” According to the National Center for Educational Statistics, Philipsburg-Osceola School District spends just under $22,000 per student. In contrast, taxpayers pay $2.86 million per month, plus $10/day per detainee for the first 800 beds and $40/day for beds 801–1,876. These figures inform our estimate of about $48k/person/year in detention costs.
Why do we value cruelty more than educating our children?