Federal detainees to be relocated to Mecklenburg County jails – WSOC TV

Federal detainees to be relocated to Mecklenburg County jails  WSOC TV

The Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office and the U.S. Marshals Service have reached an agreement to relocate federal detainees to detention facilities in Mecklenburg County, officials announced on Friday afternoon. CHARLOTTE — The Mecklenburg County Sheriff’s Office and the U.S. Marshals Service have reached an agreement to relocate federal detainees to detention facilities in Mecklenburg County, officials announced on Friday afternoon. The partnership addresses a regional shortage of local detention beds for federal pretrial detainees in the Western District of North Carolina. Currently, about 350 of the district’s 450 federal detainees are housed in facilities outside North Carolina while awaiting trial. “These are serious federal detainees in our facilities,” said Chief Deputy U.S.

Marshall Chris Edge. The relocated detainees will be housed at Mecklenburg County Jail Central in Uptown Charlotte and the Mecklenburg County Detention Center North. Jail North was closed in 2022 but was recently reopened under the direction of Sheriff Garry McFadden. In September, the sheriff’s office transferred more than 200 state detainees to Jail North, which has an adult capacity of 651. The renewed arrangement restores local housing for federal detainees following the end of a previous agreement in 2023. Since that agreement ended, federal pretrial detainees have been held in as many as 14 facilities across states including Georgia, Virginia, South Carolina, and Kentucky, with some locations