Overview

• The Department of Homeland Security will add 1,000 beds to the existing Miami Correctional Center in Bunker Hill, Indiana, using federal funds under an agreement announced Aug. 5; no new construction is planned.
• The expansion replicates the Alligator Alcatraz model and is part of the administration’s broader 80,000-bed plan under the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and the reactivated 287(g) program.
• Speedway Slammer is designated to hold migrants with severe criminal records pending deportation proceedings.
• Officials from the city of Speedway said they were not consulted on the name and criticized the federal government’s unilateral use of their community’s identity.
• IndyCar and driver Pato O’Ward have objected to an AI-generated race-car image featuring O’Ward’s number, calling it an unauthorized appropriation of intellectual property.