texas. that makes it bigger than every single federal prison in the united states except for that one old mega prison in new jersey. but this big new facility in texas, it is not a federal prison, not technically. what it is, is a giant de facto jail for kids who haven't been found to have committed any crimes. this is the shelter built by the trump administration to detain kids who cross the southern border. it was build in texas during the height of the family separation crisis when the white house realized they didn't have anywhere to put all the kids. this was supposed to be a temporary facility. that's how the white house sold it to the public. they promised they were opening it in june and would be closed by july 13th. now the press has a new report about how the trump administration turned that temporary shelter into a full-blown prison-sized, gigantic detention center for