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As the population of detainees at North Lake Processing Center topped a thousand people late last year, dozens of emergency calls came into the county emergency dispatch center. Audio from these 911 calls give us a small window into what’s happening inside.

The company that owns Michigan’s North Lake Processing Center, the largest immigration detention facility in the Midwest, reported $254 million in profit last year, up nearly 700 percent from $32 million in 2024.

The average daily population at the North Lake facility in Michigan has ballooned to more than 1,300 people. This retired pastor visits each week.

Loved ones of people detained at a Michigan detention center reported to the No Detention Centers in Michigan coalition that they're worried about conditions in the facility. The North Lake Processing Center, located in Baldwin, Michigan, is currently the largest detention center in the Midwest.

A for-profit prison in a rural county in Michigan is expected to close when its contract expires at the end of September, 2022.That's after President Joe…