Overview

• The administration intends to offer 450 beds at Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola for immigrant detainees under a proposal expected to be formalized next month
• Angola covers 18,000 acres and holds approximately 3,400 inmates, over 90 percent of whom are convicted violent offenders, with 70 percent serving life sentences
• Eunice Cho of the ACLU’s National Prison Project called the move “profoundly disturbing” and warned it aims to sow “sadistic terror” in immigrant communities
• DHS has imposed a quota of 3,000 arrests per day and is recruiting new agents with $50,000 bonuses and student loan forgiveness to bolster enforcement
• Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry declared a state emergency to accelerate repairs on Camp J, an abandoned wing at Angola, to prepare the facility for migrant housing