Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday that the state will use a shuttered state prison in North Florida to open a second immigration detention center.
Aug. 14 Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said Thursday that the state will use a shuttered state prison in North Florida to open a second immigration detention center.
The state plans to spend $6 million to renovate Baker Correctional Institution, which was closed due to staffing issues in the state prison system. It will hold more than 1,300 people awaiting deportation. He nicknamed it „Deportation Depot.“
State officials have said that the Florida National Guard will staff the new facility, not corrections officers.
„We have reached the point where we need additional capacity“, DeSantis said at a press conference outside the shuttered prison.
