Sioux City, Iowa (RI) — Woodbury County Sheriff Chad Sheehan is helping pay for the new county jail by taking in more federal prisoners. Sheehan is asking the county supervisors for funds to hire eight more officers to help handle and transport the federal prisoners from North Dakota.
The Sheriff says the newly opened Law Enforcement Center now has them working on two different floors and more staff would help with that.
Sheehan says it will cost 650 thousand dollars to hire the new staff and that would be paid for with revenue from taking care of 18 federal inmates from North Dakota. Sheehan expects to hold some 40 federal inmates from North Dakota and they would generate nearly one-and-a-half million dollars. He says additional staff would allow them to handle more than 100 federal inmates various states.
The additional revenue from holding the federal inmates would be used to pay down the new law enforcement center. Sheehan says they are not expecting to be holding inmates arrested by ICE as illegal immigrants.
