From: OFeem1987@teleworm.us   
      
   Lee wrote this screed in ALL-CAPS:   
      
   > ICE Is Gearing Up to Build "Mega" Jails   
   > Feb 16   
      
   MAGA jails.   
      
   > ICE is planning on spending $38 billion on the project.   
      
   How about some health-care support for Americans?   
      
   > Immigration and Customs Enforcement is planning to spend tens of   
   > billions of dollars on mega-prisons where the agency can   
   > disappear thousands of people.   
   >   
   > In a memo shared with New Hampshire Governor Kelly Ayotte, ICE   
   > outlined its $38.3 billion plan to launch a "new detention   
   > center model" that would expand the agency's detention   
   > capacity by 92,600 beds by the end of FY26.   
      
   About $414,000 per bed!   
      
   > "This effort aims to meet the growing demand for bedspace and   
   > streamline the detention and removal process, focusing on   
   > non-traditional facilities built specifically to support   
   > ICE's needs," the memo said. "This model includes the   
   > acquisition and renovation of eight large-scale detention   
   > centers and 16 processing sites, as well as the acquisition of   
   > 10 existing 'turnkey' facilities where ICE ERO already   
   > operates."   
      
   Do they include waterboards?   
      
   > The large-scale processing centers, also called   
   > "mega-centers," would house between 7,000 and 10,000   
   > detainees for "periods averaging less than 60 days," and   
   > serve as the site of international removals.  Other processing   
   > facilities would house between 1,000 and 1,500 detainees for   
   > between three and seven days.   
      
   Sounds like a good deal for Trump and Krusti's private-prison   
   friend.   
      
   > https://newrepublic.com/post/206591/ice-build-mega-jails-38-billion   
      
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