DeSantis announced plans to convert a shuttered North Florida prison into an immigration detention center, replacing a costlier proposed site.

The state will open a second immigration detention, processing and deportation facility at Baker Correctional Institution dubbed 'Deportation Depot'

A new $39,000 state contract for a weather monitoring system and two lightning sirens was posted to a state website this week. According to the contract description, the equipment will go to the “North Detention Facility”.