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Colorado's sole contracted immigrant detention facility holds among the highest average number of people in the U.S., according to newly released federal data.
The big picture: The Denver Contract Detention Facility in Aurora averages 1,142 detainees a day for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
It has a capacity of 1,532 beds, ICE's Denver field office spokesperson Steve Kotecki told us.
The average gives Aurora among the 10 biggest populations of detainees in the country, per data collected by the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) reviewed by Axios.
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