County to consider federal funding for ICE detention center as solution to jail dilemma

Idea receives favorable reception from commission, but opposition at the city council meetingHOT SPRINGS — Although it turned out that money approved at the last Commission meeting for Johnson Construction to design and estimate the costs of a new jail could not come from the county’s Building Fund as hoped, the Commissioners voted unanimously to go ahead with the $25,000 bi...

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