BRUNERSBURG, Ohio — The governing board of the Corrections Center of Northwest Ohio voted Wednesday morning to keep the regional jail’s contract to hold detainees for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, rejecting another request to cancel the agreement, The Crescent News reported.
The board turned back the cancellation request during its regular meeting in Brunersburg on Wednesday, October 28, according to The Crescent News. The board did agree to take a closer look at the contract, asking CCNO officials for more scrutiny of the arrangement even as it left the deal in place, The Crescent News reported.
CCNO is the multi-county jail that houses inmates and detainees for five northwest Ohio counties — Defiance, Fulton, Henry, Lucas and Williams. Its governing board is made up of a commissioner and the sheriff from each of those five counties, and the board’s meetings have drawn repeated public pressure over the ICE contract since it was approved…