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Christian County approves jail health-services addendum to house up to 100 federal detainees
Summary
The fiscal court approved an addendum to the county jail’s health-services contract to allow housing up to 100 federal (ICE) detainees, authorize a phased move to 24/7 on-site medical care paid by the agreement, and permit hiring of additional deputies and contracted medical staff; officials described projected revenue as an estimate.
Taylor Smith, the county official who presented the item, told the Christian County fiscal court that the sheriff’s office had negotiated an agreement to house up to 100 federal detainees and that the contract requires more intensive on-site medical care.
"We have come to an agreement with them to house up to a 100 of their inmates," Taylor Smith said, describing a phased intake of 25 inmates at a time and an authorized path to a 24/7 on-site medical model funded by the contract. Smith said the medical addition would be “somewhere in the ballpark of 250,000” and that gross revenue at full capacity would be “almost $1,900,000 a year,” with a rough net estimate of between $600,000 and $700,000. Those figures…
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