BOLIVIA, N.C. (AP) - A letter to a North Carolina sheriff from U.S. Marshals says his county is owed more than $54,000 for housing federal inmates in December during the partial government shutdown.
WECT-TV quotes the Jan. 7 letter to Brunswick County Sheriff John Ingram from Acting U.S. Marshal Robert Pettit. It says the Marshals Service is unable to process payments for prisoner housing because of a lack of federal appropriation.
The county jail can hold 50 federal detainees at most through its agreement with the Marshals Service and invoice it $65 per day per inmate.
The sheriff’s office said in an email that 20 federal detainees were being held as of Tuesday morning. It says the jail can absorb the unexpected costs through the fiscal year’s end, should the shutdown last that long.
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Information from: WECT-TV, http://www.wect.com/
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