Dan Carden

An Indiana state prison facility is expected by the end of the week to be home to some 100 adult men being detained prior to deportation by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for lacking legal permission to remain in the United States.

Officials confirmed ICE detainees with no pending criminal charges began arriving Wednesday at the Miami Correctional Facility near Kokomo, which is about 100 miles southeast of Valparaiso.

Ultimately, up to 1,000 adult men awaiting deportation are set to be held in a portion of the prison closed off in recent years due to a shortage of correctional officers.

Lloyd Arnold, commissioner of the Indiana Department of Correction (DOC), told the State Budget Committee Sept. 17 that ICE is paying DOC $291 per detainee, per day, to use pa

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