GADSDEN, AL - In a modern, multistory building here, 300 illegal immigrants sit locked inside the only public jail in Alabama that will take them.

That's 300 every day - full capacity every day. It's 300 every day in spite of a fleet of six buses that hauls dozens back home to Mexico each week and more to federal court appearances across the South.

Dozens in, dozens out. But 300 are here every day.

"They ask every day if we'll get bigger," said Etowah County Chief Corrections Officer Scott Hassell, referring to the federal agents who share his jail. Read more.

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