BAY MINETTE, Ala. (WKRG) — The brand new tower at the Baldwin County Jail in Bay Minette is almost ready to start accepting new inmates, and some of those inmates will once again be suspected illegal immigrants.

"Baldwin County is seeing more detainees than any other county in the state," said Baldwin County Sheriff Anthony Lowery.

Until last month, they could not be housed in the Baldwin County Jail. "The last week of August, we were able to take in our first group of ICE detainees," said Lowery.

Ten pages of legislative red tape governing corrections facilities were reduced to two, according to Lowery, ending six months of federal agents taxiing detainees to Mississippi or Louisiana because the Baldwin County Jail had failed to meet federal requirements.

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