[ansel12]

It was a military defense fort and then a prison, that means a lot of expensive demolition before new and high tech could be built to replace it, and then one has to ask why?

Does the location mean today in a more advanced technological world and with new building and prison expertise and techniques what it meant almost a century ago?

Any type of effective prison can be built anywhere today, cheaper and better.

[SmokingJoe]

WTH you babbling about?
“Expensive demolition”?
How so?
Biden spent hundreds of billions of tax payer dollars putting illegals in posh hotels and paying illegals lots of tax payer dollars, yet you whine about the cost of rebuilding a redesigned old prison?

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Imagine the Environmental Impact Statement logjam that will be created.

[OldGoatCPO]

I am thinking of a high-tech, totally isolated prison in a solid Red State surrounded by Red States or on the new military reservation on the border where illegals can see it. Block concrete buildings capable of housing up to ten thousand people at a time. A sprawling air-conditioned tent city (like in Desert Storm) next to it, surrounded by row after row of razor wire and fences. Low-risk inmates who will face rapid deportation in the tent city, and criminals in the prison. Establish five to ten Administrative Courts in the prison, each running 24/6. Sundays and Federal holidays are off to rest the Judges. You would need 15 to 30 Administrative Immigration Judges rotating in and out to keep the flow of deportations. AIJs do not need a law degree. Provide major financial and retirement incentives for people with the required education or retired lawyers to work as an AIJ on a two-year contract.

The prison has to be run like a SuperMax. Make the idea of coming to the United States illegally unpleasant. They will still come for the work, but stiffer penalties for companies would reduce the number of jobs available. In most cases, illegals would willingly self-deport to try to return to work.

Imagine the town that would grow around the prison, the construction boom, and the income flowing into the area. Has to be a Red State with a conservative District and Appeals Court.