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Alligator Alcatraz costs about $500 million for 5000 inmates, or $100,000 per inmate.
That $45 billion detention budget is enough for 450,000 inmates. The US has about 2 million people incarcerated.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_States