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| DOC to pay $500K to Bureau of Prisons |
| By guampdn.com |
| Published: 01/05/2010 |
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The local corrections department will soon be making a $500,000 payment to the Federal Bureau of Prisons for housing violent Guam prisoners off island. Department of Corrections Director J.B. Palacios said the payment will be the first made towards the approximately $8 million owed to the federal agency. Palacios said if the payments aren't made, the different jurisdictions in the United States could send the inmates back to the island. "These are the violent offenders that the Department of Corrections do not have the facility nor the capacity to hold," Palacios said. "The safety of the community of Guam should never be put at risk." The debt to the Federal Bureau of Prisons is more than a decade old. The debt has been racking up since 1998 for the 29 "violent" inmates the federal agency has been placing in several facilities across the U.S. mainland. "Right now we are in negotiations with the Department of the Treasury and we will be making an initial $500,000 payment. We are also negotiating the payment schedules and it will depend on the availability of funds," Palacios said. Palacios said an order was given to temporarily stop payments to the bureau during the administration of former Gov. Carl Gutierrez. He said the Camacho administration started the payment negotiations with the federal agency after the corrections department dealt with the requirements of the consent order between the local agency and the Justice Department. Read More. |
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