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- Jan 8, 2007
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MYRTLE BEACH (AP) -- South Carolina sheriffs back a plan to build three regional prisons in the state to hold illegal immigrants as they await deportation.
Several sheriffs tell The Myrtle Beach Sun News that the plan would remove the inmates from overcrowded county jails, where they take up valuable space as they await officials to transfer them to the closest federal immigration court in Atlanta.
The current plan calls for the three prisons to hold up to 400 inmates each. State prison officials will run the facilities, which will be paid for through a program with the federal Department of Homeland Security.
It hasn't been determined who will pay to build the prisons, and officials stress the plan is a work in progress.
http://www.wltx.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=61154
Several sheriffs tell The Myrtle Beach Sun News that the plan would remove the inmates from overcrowded county jails, where they take up valuable space as they await officials to transfer them to the closest federal immigration court in Atlanta.
The current plan calls for the three prisons to hold up to 400 inmates each. State prison officials will run the facilities, which will be paid for through a program with the federal Department of Homeland Security.
It hasn't been determined who will pay to build the prisons, and officials stress the plan is a work in progress.
http://www.wltx.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=61154