#Sheriffs

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It was something that really began to happen when the United States decided that it would interlock the immigration system with the criminal legal system. So some people call it the criminal immigration system, which is not a term that I coined. It's something that immigration law experts coined.

But when Congress passed a certain series of laws in the 1980s and 90s, what they wanted to do was create a system in which people who were accused of crimes, particularly at the time, drug crimes, would be able to be immediately deported in a way that was basically faster. So they didn't have to be convicted. So normally, if you're accused of a crime, you have a right to a trial, then you might be convicted or acquitted, or you might plea out.

But if you are determined to be undocumented, you can actually be put into deportation proceedings before anyone brings you to trial. So you just are arrested and charged, and you can go immediately into deportation proceedings. And it turned out that this was a pretty effective way for police to interact with the immigration system.

And sheriffs became a lynch point originally because they run county jails.

So county jails are kind of the first stop if you're arrested. If you are unfortunate enough to be arrested, you will go through the county jail, at which point they take your ID, your fingerprints, right?

They take a variety of information. And sheriffs kind of became really useful because they were in the jail already, so they could interview people, ask them where they were from, ask them if they had proof of citizenship, and then help ICE put them into deportation proceedings. And alongside that, sheriffs were also able to make some money by housing people awaiting deportation in their jails.

That's also the benefit for them. The federal government houses about 25% of immigrants in detention in county jails right now. And they pay these sheriffs a per diem.

So they get paid sort of per day to keep people in their jails. And it's one of the ways that sheriffs are able to use that jail kind of as a political tool, right, to make money for their county.

So under Trump, two things happened. One was that anti-immigration groups, so I mentioned the Federation for American Immigration Reform, or FAIR. That was a group that was already in existence.

They are an anti-immigrant group. And they began to email sheriffs, especially sheriffs that they knew were kind of constitutional sheriffs or in the far right sheriff atmosphere and say, hey, would you like to help the Trump administration deport more people? And many of them said, sure.

And so using this anti-immigrant group, the Trump administration recruited more sheriffs to join a program called 287G. And 287G is a federal program that essentially deputizes sheriffs and their deputies to act as immigration agents. So under Trump, many, many more sheriffs joined this 287G program.

Now, the 287G program is a bit interesting because it doesn't include any funding for the sheriffs, but it is something that sheriffs used to say that they were tough on immigration.

-Jessica Pishko, The Unchecked Power Of Sheriffs

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hearing sheriff mike open up about jesses death was sad idk. im really glad he's finally talking about it and sorta healing from it (i mean he still has issues, but everyone in patience does anyway)

i love mike so much. without him it would be SO boring. the best and most important sheriff the world has ever seen.

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10/24/23

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Sheriff Peck and Sheriff Drake will do whatever it takes to catch the outlaws of their town. 

@slytherinocicat are you drooling yet. Here’s Dirk Benedict and William Hopper as cowboys/lawmen. 

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A podcast in LA that goes deep into the history of LASD and their gangs that will not be held accountable. The people kicked out Alex finally. Horray.

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ALRIGHT,

LAUNDRY

SHERIFF

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Tennessee Sheriff Faces 22 Charges In 2 Counties, Accused Of Profiting From Inmate Labor –Nashville Tennessee reporting

● In 2020, Thomas and a group of local investors created three for-profit businesses known collectively as the Alliance Group.

● The three businesses provided staffing assistance to local businesses, housed current and former inmates at a transitional home called Orchard House and provided transportation to work release inmates and former inmates traveling to and from work.

● Thomas directed a little more than $1.4 million in inmate wage fees and deductions to profit the Alliance Group from February 2020-October 2022, and at least 170 inmates in Thomas’ custody were employed by the Alliance staffing agency during the investigation.

● Thomas, who held a 20% ownership interest in Alliance, received more than $181,000 in compensation, payroll benefits and legal representation services from the businesses, which the investigation claims came through inmate labor.

● Thomas allowed 74 Tennessee Department of Correction inmates held in the Gibson County jail to reside at Orchard House without proper approval from a judge.

● The sheriff is accused of continuing to show the jail as the inmate location in the state’s offender management system, which resulted in the county collecting $507,273 in reimbursements from the state department of corrections that were disbursed to Orchard House without the state agency's knowledge or consent.

● Thomas directed $448,637.09 of wages earned by inmates working for Alliance to be deposited into a private account owned and controlled by the Alliance Group instead of having their wages deposited into an inmate trust account.

Thomas faces four charges in Davidson County because they relate to Tennessee Department of Correction inmates, according to John Dunn, spokesperson for the comptroller's office. The Davidson County charges are one count of theft of property over $60,000, two counts of computer crimes over $60,000, and one count of forgery over $60,000.

Thomas was booked into the Davidson County jail on Wednesday and released on $25,000 bail at just after 5 p.m., the same day, according to the Davidson County Sheriff's Office.

Gibson County is about 145 miles from Nashville, in northwest Tennessee. It is home to about 50,000 people, according to the most recent census figures.

Thomas has served as sheriff of Gibson County since 2014.

The Gibson County Sheriff's Office said Thursday that he was is still the acting sheriff. Efforts to reach him for comment on this story were not successful. A message seeking comment for this story from Gibson County Mayor Nelson Cunningham was not immediately returned Thursday.

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8/6/23