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Residents urge Butler County commissioners to end ICE contract, recount detainee's account of jail conditions
Summary
Multiple residents used the public-comment period to criticize Butler County’s contracts with ICE and the Marshals Service, to describe a former detainee’s account of conditions at Butler County Jail, and to call for holding the sheriff to a hiring freeze and ending federal detainer contracts.
During the meeting’s public-comment period, more than a dozen residents addressed Butler County Commissioners about the county jail, the sheriff’s contracts with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and the U.S. Marshals Service, and living conditions described by a recently released detainee.
Ellen Price of Oxford quoted from the detainee’s public account and told commissioners that the detainee’s description focused less on the physical plant and more on treatment. “He related his initial intake, being stripped and held in freezing temperature for hours and not given the chance to use a bathroom,” Price said. She…
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