LA Daily News
WASHINGTON - Los Angeles County will get $12.5 million from the feds next year to lock up illegal immigrants who commit crimes, but local leaders said that's barely enough to pay for their prison jumpsuits.
The money is part of $285 million Congress approved last year for the State Criminal Alien Assistance Program, and which the Department of Justice allocated Monday. California prisons will get $121.1 million, with $85 million going to the state.
"That's it?" said Terry Thornton, spokeswoman for the California Department of Corrections, which oversees 16,178 prison inmates with immigration "holds."
Posted by Richard at November 22, 2005