When the Butler County Sheriff's Office received a letter July 28 expressing deep concerns over its contract with the federal government to hold ICE detainees, officials there decided to invite some of the 35 faith leaders who signed it on a tour of the Butler County Jail.

More than a dozen pastors — almost all of them from Butler County — took the sheriff's office up on its offer. The roughly hour-long tour of the facility where ICE detainees are housed happened Aug. 13.

The tour comes at a time when a number of individuals and groups in Butler County and beyond are questioning the sheriff's contract with ICE, expressing concerns about the treatment detainees receive , and pointing out many of the immigrants detained there don't stand accused of any crime beyond being undocumented.

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