Budget conference: Some $3M added to state justice measure to handle more immigration detainees

Budget conference: Some $3M added to state justice measure to handle more immigration detainees

In a move to bolster funding for jails handling more detainees of those being apprehended by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents, Florida legislators added more funding to a Senate appropriations measure. The Appropriations Conference Committee on Criminal and Civil Justice late Thursday added a provision and specific funding appropriation to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement “to award grants to local jails that are und…