Sheriff scraps $1.9M ICE contract; county needs more space for local inmates

“I simply cannot take on ICE prisoners without more space.”

– Alamance County sheriff Terry Johnson

The office of Alamance County’s sheriff has announced that he has pulled out of a federal detention agreement that has allowed the U.S. Bureau of Immigration Enforcement (ICE) to lease space in the county jail for immigration detainees. In the process, the county will forfeit about $1.9 million in annual revenues from the current ICE contract…

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