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GA: Homeland Security's Inspector General Critical of Sheriff departments 287g procedures

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

Report critical of immigration detention program By Andria Simmons April 25, 2010 The Atlanta Journal-Constitution A federal oversight body?s critical report has rekindled a debate about the effectiveness of a program touted by local law enforcement as a way to rid the community of dangerous illegal immigrants. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is not adequately vetting, training or supervising the police forces that have been empowered to enforce immigration law, according to the March report by the Department of Homeland Security?s inspector general. The Gwinnett, Cobb, Hall and Whitfield County Sheriff?s departments are among 71 law enforcement agencies nationwide that have inked agreements with ICE. The program, called 287(g), allows deputies to screen inmates booked into the jail to determine their immigration status...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on April 27, 2010 (boomark / email).