"He sent immigrant detainees to the Guantánamo Bay Navy base in early February and floated plans (that soon fizzled) to hold 30,000 people there. In March, he shipped planeloads of detainees to the CECOT megaprison in El Salvador. Trump has said he wants to reopen the federal penitentiary on Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay, and has been so hung up on the branding that he opened a tent camp in the Florida swamps this summer that officials promoted as "Alligator Alcatraz.""
"Yesterday Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Attorney General Pam Bondi held a press conference with Louisiana Republican Governor Jeff Landry to announce that they have moved 51 ICE detainees into a wing of the prison called Camp J. The administration plans to house about 400 ICE detainees-"the worst of the worst''-at the facility. Once known as "The Dungeon," Camp J was formerly used to lock inmates in solitary confinement, but the wing has been closed for years after falling into disrepair."
In his second term, President Donald Trump has sought to house immigrant detainees in high-profile, high-security sites. Detainees were sent to Guantánamo Bay and to the CECOT megaprison in El Salvador; plans to hold 30,000 at Guantánamo fizzled. Administrators opened a Florida tent camp branded "Alligator Alcatraz," later vacated after a court found environmental law violations. The administration moved 51 ICE detainees into Camp J at Angola, Louisiana, and plans to house about 400 detainees there. Camp J, once called "The Dungeon," was used for solitary confinement but had been closed for years due to disrepair. Angola occupies an 18,000-acre former plantation and combines a history of violence with vocational programs and a public annual rodeo.
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