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Dauphin County Prison has handed 26 people over to ICE agents in response to non-legally binding requests since May, despite the fact officials agreed to halt the practice that month.
At that meeting, county officials agreed the prison board’s solicitor and the prison warden would implement the agreement into policy within 30 days. Instead, a subcommittee of the board secretly met to craft a policy that partially betrays the point of the initial vote, according to one county commissioner.
The tug-of-war between the intent of the resolution and the actual draft policy — on its sixth iteration now — has drawn the issue out into a months-long campaign. The county prison still hands over incarcerated people directly into ICE hands, and the board on Wednesday voted to kick the can down the road another month.
Full story: https://www.pennlive.com/news/2026/10/5-months-after-agreeing-to-reduce-ice-cooperation-dauphin-county-still-doesnt-have-a-policy.html
Public comment: Beginning-26:12
Board discussion: 26:12-end