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  • CoreCivic presents ICE facility plans to packed room

    Kayne Pyatt and Bryon Glathar, Uinta County Herald Via Wyoming News Exchange|Dec 5, 2019

    EVANSTON — The Portland Rose Room at the Roundhouse was filled to capacity — 260 people, plus others standing in doorways and outside the room — for a special three-hour Uinta County Commission meeting at which CoreCivic, a private prison company that hopes to build and operate an immigration detention center in Evanston, presented its plans. The public meeting was held for the purposes of hearing CoreCivic describe its proposed facility and for receiving public questions and comments. Seven individuals with CoreCivic and its partners gave... Full story

  • Opposition to ICE facility strong at Evanston event

    Kayne Pyatt, Uinta County Herald Via Wyoming News Exchange|Aug 22, 2019

    EVANSTON — “When we show support for our brothers and sisters, we encounter the Lord,” Father Augustine Carillo of St. Mary Magdalen Catholic Church said as he finished reading a letter from Bishop Steven Biegler of the Diocese of Cheyenne. Father Carillo was the first to speak at the WyoSayNo Fiesta De Familias gathering held at Hamblin Park on Sunday, Aug. 18. Approximately 200 people attended the event, coming from Cheyenne, Laramie, Green River, Rock Springs, Bridger Valley and Evanston. Visitors also came from Salt Lake City and Clear... Full story