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The Trump administration is reportedly in talks with Louisiana officials to send immigrant detainees to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola, the country’s largest maximum security prison.

According to Nola.com , the immigrants would be housed in an unused wing that was closed in 2018 because of safety concerns, placing detained immigrants – many of whom have no criminal record – in close quarters with Louisiana’s most violent criminals.

If the plan moves forward, it would save the state the cost of building a new facility similar to Florida’s "Alligator Alcatraz," which can house up to 3,000 inmates in the Florida Everglades. Detainees being held at the Florida facility report worms in the food, toilets that don’t flush, flooding floors with fecal waste, and a

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