In his second term, President Donald Trump has searched far and wide for a fearsome prison to call his own. 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.” But the future of that site is looking shaky too, and the administration has been forced to move detainees out of the facility after a federal court last month found that it violated environmental laws.The maximum-security penitentiary in Angola, Louisiana, is the latest entry in Trump’s casting… ...[TheTopNews] Read More.
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