ICE detentions should not be a profit center for Kentucky’s jails

By: Kyle Ellison

Outlets: Kentucky Lantern

Published: May 26, 2026

Words: 786

Last Updated: 2 months ago

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In 1860, Dr. William Sneed, who had been the chief surgeon at Kentucky’s penitentiary, warned of any “effort to make the inmates a source of revenue for the State.”

Flash forward 166 years to a story in the Louisville Courier-Journal reporting that eight Kentucky county jails were holding 1,100 immigrants on behalf of the federal Department of Homeland Security and ICE. For this service, the jails in Boone, Campbell, Christian, Daviess, Grayson, Hopkins, …

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