ICE's own fiscal-year average, not a bed count and not a point-in-time headcount.
Average of that population convicted or with pending charges
144
ICE's classification, reproduced as published. This is an ICE administrative classification. Pending charges are not convictions, and this field is not population-level crime-rate evidence.
Average length of stay
53.1 days
Guaranteed minimum
1,800
A population level a contract treats as guaranteed. The workbook prints the number, not the price.
70CDCR25FR0000096 · Recorded as of August 20, 2026
02b
Contract floor, population and ownership
A difference between a printed contract floor and a reported population is a difference in beds. It becomes money only where an auditor published a figure.
Contract floor and populationICE workbook data pull, 2026-07-20
More than 10% below the printed floor. A printed guaranteed minimum is a contract floor recorded in ICE's workbook. It is not the facility's physical or licensed capacity, and on its own it establishes no payment.
North Lake is a GEO Group facility in Baldwin, Michigan carrying a current ICE detention and transportation order already indexed here: order 70CDCR25FR0000096, opened in August 2025 and grown to about $91.9 million. ICE's fiscal 2026 workbook reports an average daily population of 1,266.3 against a printed guaranteed minimum of 1,800, and records a Pre-Occupancy inspection ending March 4, 2025 marked Pass. Company sources use the earlier North Lake Correctional Facility name for the same property; the correctional era and the current immigration-detention use are held apart. Nothing indexed here establishes conditions inside the building.
Partial dossier · Last reviewed August 21, 2026
Published as partial. Identity, the historical and current names of one property, the federal order and its action history, the workbook snapshot and the company roles are established. Activation wording, the property chain, the local agreement, inspection findings and any conditions or harm record are not.
Evidence chain · every edge labelled by what the record establishes
01
Public money
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement — appropriated detention funding
GEO Group's own facility disclosure presents the Baldwin property as a company facility. No reviewed record prints an acquisition or title date, so none is carried.
What this does not establish
The deed date, which legal entity holds title, the financing chain, current valuation, or every property-holding subsidiary.
GEO Group's own facility disclosure describes the company running the Baldwin facility. The federal order is not used on its own to establish operation, and no reviewed source prints a start date for the current operating arrangement.
What this does not establish
That the company performs every service at the site, the division of duties with ICE, the identity of any medical or food provider, or that the arrangement cannot terminate.
THE GEO GROUP, INC. is the recipient of record on ICE delivery order 70CDCR25FR0000096 for detention and transportation services at North Lake, signed August 1, 2025 with a period of performance from July 21, 2025 to July 20, 2026.
What this does not establish
Real-property ownership, who physically operates the facility, facility safety, conditions, or any harm.
Federal agencyU.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
July 21, 2025 — no end date printed
ICE is the contracting and detaining authority on the North Lake order and prints the facility as its own row in the fiscal 2026 detention-statistics workbook.
What this does not establish
A per diem, an invoice, a payment for unused capacity, or the identity of any local intergovernmental counterparty.
Money, population, inspections, litigation and harm on one calendar
The facility record beside the money record
Lanes are shown side by side because they share a facility and a calendar, not a cause. Chronological proximity does not establish causation.
Only dated events are plotted. Records carrying an as-of or dataset-cutoff date, such as ICE’s fiscal-year population aggregates, are listed in the table instead, because a data-pull date is not the date something happened.
202520262027
Money and award actions
Population and capacity
No record indexed in this lane
Inspections and oversight
Litigation and corrective action
No record indexed in this lane
Observed and attributed harm
No record indexed in this lane
Select or focus a marker to read the underlying record. Every marker below is also listed in the table.
Facility evidence records by date, lane, evidence status and source.
Date
Lane
Record
Status
Mar 04, 2025
Inspections and oversight
Pre-Occupancy inspection ended March 4, 2025, marked PassICE's fiscal 2026 workbook records a Pre-Occupancy inspection of this facility ending March 4, 2025 under NDS 2019, with a final rating of Pass. The underlying report is not indexed by this project. Pass is ICE's own summary label. It is not a safety finding, it does not establish that no deficiency was recorded, and a pre-occupancy review says nothing about conditions once people are held.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Fiscal 2026 average daily populationICE reports this facility's average daily population for fiscal 2026 in its detention-management workbook. It is a fiscal-year average, not a bed count and not a headcount on any given day.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Observed / verified
As of Jul 20, 2026
Population and capacity
Fiscal 2026 average length of stayICE reports the average number of days people spent in custody at this facility in fiscal 2026.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Observed / verified
As of Jul 20, 2026
Population and capacity
Contracted guaranteed minimumICE's workbook prints a guaranteed minimum population level for this facility. The workbook prints the number; it does not print the price attached to it.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Observed / verified
No date printed
Litigation and corrective action
The property previously operated under the North Lake Correctional Facility nameCompany sources use the North Lake Correctional Facility name for the same Baldwin property, from an era when it held a correctional rather than an immigration-detention population. The prior name and the current name refer to one property. No reviewed record prints a closure date, a reopening date, or the terms of the earlier contracts.The GEO Group, Inc.U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission / The GEO Group, Inc.
Attributed finding
As of Jul 21, 2025
Inspections and oversight
ICE use began between the March 2025 pre-occupancy inspection and the July 2025 order startICE's workbook records a Pre-Occupancy inspection of this facility ending March 4, 2025, and the federal order for detention and transportation services runs from July 21, 2025. Read together, the two records place the start of ICE use in that window. No reviewed source prints an activation statement, a first intake day, or a first population figure, so none is published. Expected, intake begun, activated and fully operational are different states and none of them is claimed here.U.S. Immigration and Customs EnforcementUSAspending.gov
Inference
D
Inspections, findings and litigation
An ICE compliance rating records the agency's own determination against its detention standards on the inspection dates. It does not establish that no harm or deficiency occurred.
Date not printed · Litigation and corrective actionAttributed finding
The property previously operated under the North Lake Correctional Facility name
Company sources use the North Lake Correctional Facility name for the same Baldwin property, from an era when it held a correctional rather than an immigration-detention population. The prior name and the current name refer to one property. No reviewed record prints a closure date, a reopening date, or the terms of the earlier contracts.
Locator
GEO facility disclosure; GEO filing naming North Lake
Linked to this facility by
Company sources use the historical correctional-facility identity for the same Baldwin, Michigan address ICE prints in its workbook.
What this does not establish
The complete prior contract history, a precise closure or reopening date, or continuity of population, staffing or conditions between custody missions.
As of July 21, 2025 · Inspections and oversightInference
ICE use began between the March 2025 pre-occupancy inspection and the July 2025 order start
ICE's workbook records a Pre-Occupancy inspection of this facility ending March 4, 2025, and the federal order for detention and transportation services runs from July 21, 2025. Read together, the two records place the start of ICE use in that window. No reviewed source prints an activation statement, a first intake day, or a first population figure, so none is published. Expected, intake begun, activated and fully operational are different states and none of them is claimed here.
Locator
ICE FY2026 workbook inspection date; PIID 70CDCR25FR0000096 period of performance
Linked to this facility by
Both records describe the same Baldwin facility: one an inspection of it, one an order for services at it.
What this does not establish
A first intake date, an activation announcement, a population on any date in that window, or continuous operation across it.
March 4, 2025 · Inspections and oversightObserved / verified
Pre-Occupancy inspection ended March 4, 2025, marked Pass
ICE's fiscal 2026 workbook records a Pre-Occupancy inspection of this facility ending March 4, 2025 under NDS 2019, with a final rating of Pass. The underlying report is not indexed by this project. Pass is ICE's own summary label. It is not a safety finding, it does not establish that no deficiency was recorded, and a pre-occupancy review says nothing about conditions once people are held.
Locator
ICE FY2026 workbook row: NORTH LAKE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY
Linked to this facility by
The workbook row is this facility's own row, matched on printed name and address.
What this does not establish
Any finding, deficiency, correction or condition, and nothing about conditions after March 2025.
ICE's fiscal 2026 workbook prints North Lake in Baldwin, Michigan as its own detention facility row, with an average daily population of 1,266.3 and a printed guaranteed minimum of 1,800.
THE GEO GROUP, INC. is the recipient of record on ICE order 70CDCR25FR0000096 for detention and transportation services at the facility.
Company sources present GEO as the company associated with the property and use the historical North Lake Correctional Facility name for it.
ICE recorded a Pre-Occupancy inspection ending March 4, 2025 with a rating of Pass.
What this does not establish
A complete property title chain or the legal entity that owns the real estate.
A local intergovernmental counterparty, which is not inferred from the place name.
A per diem, an invoice amount, or any payment for unused capacity.
That conditions in the correctional era carried into immigration-detention use.
A facility-specific death, injury, negligence, preventability, or contractor-caused harm.
That any company capacity or revenue statement belongs in the federal award total.
Reviewed name matches
NORTH LAKE CORRECTIONAL FACILITY — The name ICE prints on the fiscal 2026 workbook row for 1805 W 32nd Street, Baldwin, Michigan.
North Lake Processing Center — The current name on ICE's own facility record for the Baldwin, Michigan property, matched to the workbook row on printed address, city and state.
North Lake Correctional Facility — The historical correctional-era name used by company sources for the same Baldwin property. It is carried as a prior name for one property, never as a second facility.
G
Open research questions
These are the gaps the reviewed record set names. A question listed here is unanswered, not answered in the facility's favour, and this list does not claim to cover everything unknown about the facility.
No inspection report text indexed for the March 2025 review
Searched — nothing released
This project holds ICE's own workbook summary of the Pre-Occupancy inspection — type, end date, standard and rating — and no underlying report. What the review examined and what it recorded are not indexed. Locator: ICE FY2026 workbook row.
Collection searched · August 21, 2026 · not an event date
What this does not establish
Absence of the report text does not establish that no deficiency was found or that conditions were adequate.
No activation statement extracted from the company sources
Searched — nothing released
The packet's company sources were not reachable during its own URL validation, so no exact activation wording or date was extracted. The distinction between an expectation, first intake and full operation is therefore left open rather than filled in. Locator: Batch 05 packet source docket.
Collection searched · August 21, 2026 · not an event date
What this does not establish
That no such statement exists, or that ICE use began on any particular date.
No facility-specific harm or conditions record indexed
Searched — nothing released
No death, injury, medical, grievance or conditions record naming this facility is indexed by this project. This is a search result on the review date, not a finding about the facility. Locator: Batch 05 packet source docket.
Collection searched · August 21, 2026 · not an event date
What this does not establish
Absence from the records indexed here does not establish that nothing happened, that no complaint was filed, or that no one was harmed.
These are company-wide records. They are not allocated to this facility and do not establish that political activity caused any award or facility decision.