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York County Prison ends contract with ICE
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York County Prison ends contract with ICE
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16 months after ICE prison contract ended, York County gives feds a deadline
York Dispatch
Since the 1990s, the York County Prison has contracted with the U.S. Department of Immigration and Customs Enforcement to house detainees, generating millions of dollars in revenue for the county.
Last year alone, the county received $18.4 million from the bed-day rate for ICE detainees, with the caveat that much of that goes into costs and upkeep.
Now, that contract may be in jeopardy.
The prison board voted 6-0 at its last meeting, April 13, to trigger a 120-day clause in the ICE contract, after which York County could walk away if it doesn t reach a deal with the federal government.
Updated: 9:51 PM EDT April 28, 2021
HARRISBURG, Pa. Even as vaccines become available in prisons and county jails, a majority of inmates are choosing not to get one.
Jails are known as COVID-19 hotspots where the virus can spread through communal spaces and shared cells.
Yet at Lancaster and Dauphin County Prisons, which both held their first vaccine clinic this week, only about one quarter of inmates volunteered to be vaccinated.
At Lancaster County Prison, 163 of the nearly 700 inmates got vaccinated on Tuesday, according to Warden Cheryl Steberger.
At Dauphin County Prison, about 220 people signed up but only 150 people ended up getting vaccinated on Wednesday out of more than 900 inmates, according to Director of Corrections Brian Clark.
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Citing $1 million a day of wasted federal dollars, the American Civil Liberties Union called on President Joe Biden’s administration on Wednesday to close 39 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facilities across the U.S., including the Otero County Processing Center in Chaparral.
The federal government has been paying for the empty bed spaces at these facilities, almost all run by privately-owned companies, which the ACLU called “wasting” taxpayer money.
The ACLU established a criteria for the 39 facilities it is calling on the federal government to close. In its statement, issued Wednesday, the ACLU said that Otero County Processing Center (OCPC) was included because of its “extensive record of civil rights violations and inhumane treatment.”
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