Trump administration opens immigration prison in Louisiana | 3 Sept 2025 | The federal government is opening a new immigration detention facility at Louisiana State Penitentiary, which Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem dubbed "Louisiana Lockup" in an announcement Wednesday. She said the federal partnership with the state of Louisiana will include up to 416 beds at the facility also known as Angola Prison. "If you come into this country and you victimize someone, if you take away their child forever, if you traffic drugs and kill our next generation of Americans, and if you traffic our children and men and women, absolutely there's consequences," Noem said during a news conference at the prison. "You're going to end up here." Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry said the prison was designed to hold "the worst of the worst."