ICE is expanding its detention capacity by adding 1,000 beds in Indiana through a collaboration with the state's prison system at the Miami correctional center. This initiative follows significant funding from the Trump administration, making ICE the most heavily funded law enforcement agency in the U.S. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem announced the facility would be named the Speedway Slammer. Concerns are raised about the detainee demographics and inhumane conditions based on reports from Florida's Everglades jail, questioning the concept of incarcerating 'the worst of the worst.'
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is expanding its detention capacity by 1,000 beds in Indiana through a partnership with the Midwest state's prison system.
Kristi Noem, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary, said the Indiana facility would be called the Speedway Slammer.
Records from the jail in the remote Florida Everglades, which critics have called a concentration camp, cast doubts on those assertions.
Florida advocates have alleged that the conditions at the Everglades jail were appalling, with detainees forced to sleep in overcrowded pods where sewage backups led to cages flooded with feces.
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