Action News Jax is getting a first look at some of the construction going on at Baker County Correctional Institution as it transitions to become ‘Deportation Depot’.
This once-empty prison is now starting to show some life again, after Governor Ron DeSantis (R-FL) ordered the facility to become the state’s second immigration detention center.
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The Governor said the immigration detention facility will have the capacity to house over 1,300 detainees.
We told you earlier this week about an email obtained by the Associated Press revealing that Alligator Alcatraz is expected to be empty within days…