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(Photo courtesy of the Franklin County Sheriff’s Department)
(Greenfield, MA) — The Franklin County House of Correction will no longer be a detention facility for undocumented immigrants. Franklin County Sheriff Chris Donelan has announced that the department has closed its immigrant detention center because the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency has not maintained an agreement regarding the facility’s funding. Donelan said the original agreement with ICE mandated that at least 30 detainees be held at the facility, a threshold which has not been met in some time.