County to consider federal funding for ICE detention center as solution to jail dilemma
Don Ackerman presents his idea for an ICE detention center to be located in or near Hot Springs during last week’s county commission meeting. Photo by Beth Bogart
Idea receives favorable reception from commission, but opposition at the city council meeting
HOT 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 bid because it could come…
