The Indiana Department of Correction plans to ask for $15.8 million in state funding to prepare an Indiana correctional facility to house immigration detainees.

The DOC is expected to make the funding request at a State Budget Committee meeting Wednesday morning at Indiana State University in Terre Haute, according to an agenda for the meeting.

Last month, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced that the Trump administration would partner with Indiana Gov. Mike Braun to secure about 1,000 beds at the Miami Correctional Facility for Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainees.

The 3,200-bed facility is about 70 miles north of Indianapolis in Bunker Hill, on the campus of the Grissom Air Force Reserve Base.

The DOC’s request, which is summarized in the agenda for Wednesday’s

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