By Randa Wagner
The Morrow County Sentinel
MORROW COUNTY, Ohio — The recent changes in the way the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is handling the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) program is taking a toll on the Morrow County Correctional Facility.
“We’re not going to be able to maintain our current level of operations,” Sheriff Steve Brenneman told commissioners at a special meeting Friday morning.
The very program that prevented the closing of the financially-strapped jail in the Spring of 2009 is now paring back on the number of illegal immigrants to be housed at county correctional centers. DHS has released more than 2,000 immigrants in February with plans to release 3,000 more during March, the Associated Press reported March 2, 2013.
Full story: Corrections officers get layoff notices as feds cut ICE program for jail