1. What does "Pending Criminal Charges" mean exactly?
2. How are beds contracted? My understanding was that there were 40k available at the beginning of the year. Now we're at about 50K. What are the limits? Is there a point where ICE has to stop detaining people? Is this situation partly the reason the administration is looking for beds out of country?
ICE is "borrowing" prison space from some county lock-ups. They've lined up beds in a jail in a nearby rural county. ICE is paying something like $120 a day per bed, which is a great income for these poor rural counties.
1. What does "Pending Criminal Charges" mean exactly?
2. How are beds contracted? My understanding was that there were 40k available at the beginning of the year. Now we're at about 50K. What are the limits? Is there a point where ICE has to stop detaining people? Is this situation partly the reason the administration is looking for beds out of country?
ICE is "borrowing" prison space from some county lock-ups. They've lined up beds in a jail in a nearby rural county. ICE is paying something like $120 a day per bed, which is a great income for these poor rural counties.