The GEO Group and Charlton County signed an amendment to an agreement late last year that nearly quadruples the number of beds for federal immigration detainees near the Florida-Georgia border, from 780 to 3,018. It does that by adding beds in two nearby buildings in the Folkston area, one of which served as a federal prison until last year.

The Folkston ICE Processing Center: 780 beds

D. Ray James Correctional Facility: 1,900 beds

Folkston Annex: 338

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Rebecca Ramage-Tuttle, assistant director of the Statewide Independent Living Council of Georgia, says the the DOE rule change is “a slippery slope” for civil rights. (Hyosub Shin/AJC)

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