Stark County Sheriff Steve Sloan | https://www.ilsheriff.org/county/stark/
Stark County Sheriff Steve Sloan | https://www.ilsheriff.org/county/stark/
Stark County Jail officials have not housed an illegal alien in the jail in the time period since July 1, 2021.
The jail confirmed to Peoria Standard on Thursday, May 2 that it has not housed an illegal alien or spent any money on housing illegal aliens, in response to a Freedom of Information Request.
On Thursday May 2, Peoria Standard asked the jail for a list of illegal alien inmates and the taxpayer cost of housing them
Stark County Jail had 6 inmates in its general population as of March 24, 2024.
Illinois is a so-called “Sanctuary State.” In 2021, Governor J.B. Pritzker signed a law barring police from reporting illegal alien crime to federal immigration officials, for fear they would be deported to their country of origin.
In March, the sheriff of Butler County, Ohio reported that his jail had housed 999 illegal aliens since July 1, 2021 at a cost of $1,757 per inmate, or $1.8 million to taxpayers.
An Oct. 2020 U.S. Department of Justice report estimated that, at the 2019, there were 51,074 “known or suspected” illegal aliens in U.S. federal jails and that the average cost to house a prisoner was $88.19 per day. The report found that housing illegal aliens in these jails costs U.S. taxpayers $4.5 million per day and $1.64 billion per year.
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