U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) extends a no-bid contract to keep one of its largest detention facilities in Texas operating for at least another year, according to reporting from multiple outlets. The extension is described as continuing ICE’s use of the center despite public criticism and calls to close it. PBS NewsHour reports that the decision follows allegations and reports of human rights abuses connected to conditions at the facility. The coverage also characterizes ICE’s move as a rejection of efforts to end the detention arrangement, emphasizing that the contract extension maintains the facility’s role in ICE’s detention operations. While the sources agree on the contract’s extension and the broader controversy, they do not provide, in the provided excerpts, new details about the duration beyond “at least another year,” the specific contractor, or the findings related to the reported abuses. Overall, the reports present the extension as an agency decision to continue detention capacity in Texas despite ongoing scrutiny from human rights advocates and others calling for closure.