DLR Group faces backlash over work on ICE detention centre

American architecture studio DLR Group has been linked to the conversion of an Oklahoma prison into an ICE detention denter, leading to employee backlash and a commitment to stop work on ICE-associated facilities.

According to reporting in the American magazine Mother Jones, in February 2026, DLR Group employees discovered the studio had worked as a subcontractor for the Tennessee company CoreCivic to convert the Diamondback Correctional Facility in Watonga, Oklahoma, into a detention...