Our world is surrounded by heroes. Heroes like Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash. They dart around their cities, saving people, fighting crime, fighting super powered enemies. But once those enemies are apprehended, where are they imprisoned? What holding facility contains these dangerous entities?
In Belle Reve, Louisiana, the US government runs a maximum security penitentiary for meta humans and other criminals dubbed by the press as "Supervillains."
This is public Knowledge.
What isn't known, is that of these Supervillains, a few are selected by US operative Amanda Waller to serve in black ops, high risk missions as expendable agents for the US government. Officially, they're called Task Force X.
To the agents themselves, it's called the Suicide Squad