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| 3 Jails Get Money From Government |
| By redding.com |
| Published: 06/04/2010 |
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A relatively little known federal program that helps counties and states offset the cost of housing illegal immigrant inmates provided $241,590 to three north state jails between 2007 and 2009. The cash was used to pay corrections officers’ salaries, overtime and offset maintenance costs at jails in Shasta, Tehama and Siskiyou counties, where jail budgets have been otherwise slashed due to county funding cuts. But local officials say they aren’t rounding up illegal immigrants to bolster their budgets. “That’s the farthest thing from our minds,” said Tehama County Sheriff Clay Parker, adding that illegal immigrant inmates in the jail are always held on other charges. They’re never exclusively held because they’re in the country illegally, he said. Read More. |
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