Letter: North Carolina county holding federal inmates in shutdown owed $54K
BOLIVIA — A letter to a North Carolina sheriff from U.S. Marshals says his county is owed more than $54,000 for housing federal inmates in December during the partial government shutdown.WECT-TV quotes the Jan. 7 letter to Brunswick County Sheriff John Ingram from Acting U.S. Marshal Robert Pettit. It says the Marshals Service is unable to process payments for prisoner housing because of a lack of federal appropriation.The county jail can hold 50 federal […]
