The Trump administration has told Colorado’s Congressional delegation it plans to reopen the shuttered Hudson Correctional Facility as an immigration detention center.

Located about 30 miles northeast of Denver in Weld County, the Hudson Correctional Facility is a medium-security prison that closed a decade ago.

“Hudson has the flexibility to manage a wide range of offenders of different classification levels,” said officials from the Geo Group in documents submitted to the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in a bid for the contract. Geo Group operates ICE processing facilities.

“With four distinct housing units, Hudson’s design plan can simultaneously accommodate different detainee groups, including both male and female detainees, after some minor modifications to the fencing,” they said.

The prison was built in 2009 and held inmates from Alaska until 2014, when it was closed. It has space for about 1,250 inmates.

Geo officials told ICE in February that the company could, “depending on urgency” and the specifics, begin accepting detainees “in a matter of months.”

They reported that the facility has been “very well maintained.”

Hudson Town Manager Bryce Lange did not respond to an email or phone call seeking comment on Tuesday. An emailed request to Mayor Joe Hammock and the city council also went unanswered.

Located on the front range, the city is named for the town company, Hudson City Land and Improvement Co.

The prison is operated by the GEO Group while the Highlands REIT Inc. — a real estate investment firm — owns it.

Neither Geo nor the Highlands REIT Inc. officials responded Tuesday to an inquiry from The Denver Gazette.

ICE documents obtained by the ACLU in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) show federal officials were considering at least six potential sites to expand ICE’s footprint in Colorado.

It’s unclear whether ICE is still looking at multiple facilities.

Federal officials declined to say.

In a statement to The Denver Gazette, ICE officials said the need for additional bedspace would be driving any decisions.

“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s enhanced enforcement operations and routine daily operations have resulted in a significant number of arrests of criminal aliens that require greater detention capacity,” an ICE spokesperson said in an email. “While we cannot confirm individual pre-decisional conversations, we can confirm that ICE is exploring all options to meet its current and future detention requirements.”

During a weeklong operation last month, ICE agents arrested 243 immigrants alone in the Denver metro area, as part of the Trump administration’s stepped-up immigration enforcement.

The ACLU said many of the proposed sites — including Hudson — have not been operational for years.

Among the facilities identified were:

• Huerfano County Correctional Center.

• Cheyenne Mountain Center in Colorado Springs.

• The Baptiste Migrant Detention Facility in La Junta.

• The Colorado Springs Migrant Detention Facility in Colorado Springs.

The Migrant Detention Facility is a secure facility owned by the Baptiste Group that was lasted used as skilled nursing facility in November 2024, federal documents show.

In addition to Hudson, the Geo Group also runs the Cheyenne Mountain Center, a 700-bed facility in Colorado Springs that was originally designed in 2005 as a reentry facility for the State of Colorado until closing in 2020.

According to agency documents, the GEO Group operates 18 facilities that are under contract to provide services for ICE across the country.

Headquartered in Boca Raton, Florida, the GEO Group operates private prisons and mental health facilities in seven U.S. states, Australia, South Africa and the United Kingdom. The company runs the Aurora Contract Detention Facility, which has a capacity of 1,532 people.