US immigration to hold 1,000 detainees in Indiana after deal with prison system [View all]
Source: The Guardian
Tue 5 Aug 2025 21.09 EDT
Last modified on Tue 5 Aug 2025 21.10 EDT
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, federal officials announced on Tuesday.
Ice will be housing detainees at the Miami correctional center, a prison run by the Indiana department of corrections. The move is part of the US government’s rapid expansion of immigration jails after Donald Trump’s sweeping spending bill allotted roughly $170bn to Ice, an extraordinary sum making the agency the most heavily funded law enforcement department within the federal government.
Kristi Noem, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) secretary, said the Indiana facility would be called the “Speedway Slammer”, following last month’s opening of the so-called “Alligator Alcatraz” immigration jail in Florida, in collaboration with Ron DeSantis, the state’s Republican governor.
Noem claimed Tuesday that the Indiana prison would house “some of the worst of the worst” of undocumented people, echoing DHS’ repeated claims about the targets of its enforcement. But records from the jail in the remote Florida Everglades, which critics have called a concentration camp, cast doubts on those assertions.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/05/indiana-immigration-detainees-ice
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