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It is being prepared at a state prison in north Florida, as a federal judge decides the fate of the state’s holding center for immigrants at an isolated airstrip in the Florida Everglades dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz.” Gov. DeSantis announced Thursday that the new facility is to be built at the Baker Correctional Institution, a state prison about 43 miles west of Jacksonville, and is expected to house 1,300 immigration detention beds. That capacity could be expanded to 2,000, state officials said.

We looked at the trend behind centers like “ Alligator Alcatraz .”