>>If the government is looking for windowless detention facilities, there are hundreds of abandoned and near-empty malls in this country.
Walmart stores have very limited access. Start counting all the exterior doors on a typical mall and then look at a Walmart. Plus. A Walmart store is a huge open building with high ceilings where the mall is a maze of hallways, corners, and interior walls. You could control thousands in a Walmart with a relatively small number of guards with very few modifications to the store.
And cameras are already in place.
[ Walmart stores have very limited access. Start counting all the exterior doors on a typical mall and then look at a Walmart. Plus. A Walmart store is a huge open building with high ceilings where the mall is a maze of hallways, corners, and interior walls. You could control thousands in a Walmart with a relatively small number of guards with very few modifications to the store. ]
Also there is a lot of storage area in the back of the store for logistics that we don’t normally see.
All of the support pillars make excellent attachment points for chainlink type fence to quickly parition the floor into zones.
The small “inside walmart” store at the front make for great “admin offices” for those running the detention center as well.
Some of the other stores at the fron of the store can be used for detention areas for rabble rousers.
With some minor modifications really any large store could be made into a minimal security “prison camp”...