Federal government payments to keep immigration detainees at an Indiana prison are lagging by five months, according to monthly reporting released under a new state law.

Indiana has not been paid since November, said the Department of Correction filings provided Monday to the Indiana Capital Chronicle. The state has spent about $10 million to accommodate detainees at the Miami Correctional Facility since then.

Hoosier officials agreed to a two-year contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to hold up to 1,000 detainees at a time in a previously unused wing of the prison.

Detainees sent to Miami are adult men classified as medium-maximum security for stays longer than 72 hours.

Under the agreement, which began Oct. 1 and runs through September 2027, ICE will pay Indiana $291.24 per bed per day — which DOC Commissioner Lloyd Arnold has said is about four times the $75 daily per-person cost for inmates at the prison.

The agency previously told the Capital Chronicle it had been paid $1.17 million for October and $3.86 million for November.

The DOC’s submissions to the State Budget Committee, however, list roughly $5 million in payments for November only.

The documents were filed pursuant to Senate Enrolled Act 76, a controversial immigration enforcement measure. Republicans accepted a Democratic amendment to require monthly reporting from DOC on expenses and revenue related to the ICE contract.

The provision — which took effect March 5, when the law was signed — required the agency to submit a “status update” by March 15, including money spent and received between Oct. 1 and March 1.

Future status reports are due monthly through 2027.

But the March and April reports “were mistakenly left off the April committee agenda” for the State Budget Committee, according to Department of Revenue spokeswoman Megan Kramer.

The committee is scheduled to meet Tuesday afternoon “to consider the two time-sensitive items on the agenda” — both state university campus projects on an abnormally short to-do list.

The reports show DOC has spent $12.5 million housing detainees since the contract began through March, but has received less than $5.1 million from ICE over that time period.

About $5.9 million of the expenditures were labeled “contractual services,” with $5.2 million going to ”personal services and fringe benefits.”

DOC also logged spending of $646,000 on supplies, parts and materials; $382,000 on capital costs; $340,000 on utilities and $67,000 on administrative and operating expenses.

The Budget Committee previously approved almost $15.8 million in upfront costs to prepare the prison along U.S. 31 near Grissom Air Reserve Base for its stint as what Trump administration officials dubbed the “Speedway Slammer.”

The money was intended to fund a wide range of infrastructure upgrades and equipment purchases, according to committee documents.

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WARSAW — Well over 100 people braved Saturday's 18-degree temperature for an hour in Warsaw to honor the memory of Renee Good, the 37-year-old mother who was killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent during a protest in Minnesota recently.

[caption id="attachment_125620" align="alignright" width="304"] Many of those at the protest were bundled up to stave off the frigid temperatures Saturday in Warsaw. News Now Warsaw photo by Dan Spalding.[/caption]

The rally, like many in the past year in Warsaw, was a boisterous event with many motorists honking their horns as they drove past the Warsaw Community Public Library in support of protesters who were lined up along North Detroit Street near Center Street.

Good, who died on Jan. 7, was quickly demonized by the Trump administration as a domestic terrorist while many supporters, pointing to online videos, claimed the ICE agent who shot her multiple times was not in imminent danger as Good attempted to drive away from the Minneapolis protest.

Her death has sparked multiple days of protests in Minneapolis and across the country.

While numerous signs at the Warsaw protest attempted to lighten the mood with puns about ICE, Robert Vermillion's assessment on the killing of Good was sobering.

He said he's watched the videos available on social media.

"It's obvious to me that that guy killed her on purpose. He purposely killed her," Vermillion said while holding a large American flag.

"They keep trying to hijack this narrative. "We know what happened on Jan. 6, too. We all witnessed it go down ... they want to rewrite history, they want to send troops into our cities to attack us," Vemlliion said. "That's why I'm here."

Protest signs also called attention to Trump’s authoritarian proclivities and his actions in Venezuela, as well as his ongoing demands to seize control of Greenland despite strong opposition from most Americans and the North American Trade Organization, which represents much of Europe.

The event included continual patrols by Warsaw police, and it remained peaceful.

Below are photos of Saturday's protest by News Now Warsaw's Dan Spalding.

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WARSAW — Residents have organized a protest for Saturday in Warsaw over the shooting death of a woman in Minneapolis by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer.

The Kosciusko County Democratic Party is organizing Saturday’s 2 p.m. protest outside of the Warsaw Community Public Library at the corner of Center and North Detroit Street.

The “Justice For Good’ protest is in response to the killing of a 37-year-old Renee Good who was shot in the face and died while attempting to drive away from ICE agents during a protest.

More than 1,000 protests were reported across the country over the weekend in response to Good's death, and more unrest was reported Monday in Minneapolis.

The Associated Press reports that days of demonstrations against immigration agents left Minnesota tense on Tuesday, a day after federal authorities used tear gas to break up crowds of whistle-blowing activists and state and local leaders sued to fight the enforcement surge that led to the fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman.

Confrontations between federal agents and protesters stretched throughout the day and across multiple cities on Monday.

Representatives of the Trump Administration defended the shooting of Good while many others contend the ICE agent was not in imminent danger.

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Indiana Gov. Mike Braun announced Friday that a trio of Indiana agencies have signed up for federal immigration enforcement powers.

“Indiana is not a safe haven for illegal immigration,” Braun said in a news release. “Indiana will fully partner with federal immigration authorities as they enforce the most fundamental laws of our country.”

If U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement approves the agreements, the Indiana State Police, Department of Homeland Security and Department of Correction would join four local Hoosier agencies — and nearly 900 others from across the nation — that have inked similar deals.

The formal partnerships are authorized in Section 287(g) of the Immigration and Nationality Act and allow ICE to delegate certain immigration enforcement powers to state or local officers.

There are three active program models: task force, warrant service officer and jail enforcement.

The Indiana State Police has submitted a memorandum of agreement for the task force model, according to an ICE list of pending deals that was updated Friday morning. So did the Department of Homeland Security.

The Department of Correction asked for a warrant service officer deal. The agency is “working with ICE to make available up to 1,000 beds at Miami Correctional Facility,” the news release said.

The announcement follows an executive order Braun issued in January directing Hoosier law enforcement agencies to “fully cooperate with ICE, and, to the maximum extent permitted, enter into (287(g)) agreements.”

If ICE approves the deals, the agencies will be moved to a separate list of enacted deals. But that doesn’t mean they’re active.

The agencies will nominate specific personnel to take on federal powers. However, the officer nominees must undergo ICE training and pass examinations to be deputized.

Nominees from at least two of the four local Indiana agencies that have finalized 287(g) agreements with ICE still have not been trained — and therefore, haven’t been tapped in the national deportation effort, the Capital Chronicle found.

Braun is “also anticipating further partnership” between the Indiana National Guard and federal immigration authorities, it continued. That will not be a 287(g) agreement, according to the Braun administration.

Camp Atterbury — a federally owned military installation that is licensed to and operated by the guard — will be used to hold immigrant detainees.

It will be “available for temporary use by the (U.S.) Department of Homeland Security to house illegal aliens subject to deportation, with safety in mind for staff, detainees, and surrounding communities,” the news release said.

The plan was revealed last month in a letter from U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth to congressional members.

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The Indiana Capital Chronicle is an independent, nonprofit news organization dedicated to giving Hoosiers a comprehensive look inside state government, policy, and elections. The site combines daily coverage with in-depth scrutiny, political awarenes,s and insightful commentary.

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