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Conversion of McCook facility into ICE detention hub draws overflow hearing, statewide concerns
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Nebraska Examiner
Jim Pillen’s announcement last month that Nebraska is bringing a federal immigration detention facility to town.
Among the answers Corrections said it provided:The converted ICE detention center will house an adult population with minor criminal records and nonviolent felonies.
A formal contract between Nebraska and the federal government is still being hammered out, Correctional Services officials said.
Spike Eickholt, representing ACLU Nebraska, said Nebraska leaders for a decade have debated what to do about state prison crowding.
The family’s move six years ago from Kansas to the Nebraska community of about 7,200 people was calculated, they said.
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