{"id":92592,"date":"2025-12-22T16:22:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T16:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/92592\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T16:22:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T16:22:07","slug":"martin-county-jail-housing-undocumented-detainees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/92592\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin County Jail housing undocumented detainees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stuart, FL\/CBS12 News \u2014 Martin County has a role in housing illegal immigrants who are being detained in south Florida. <\/p>\n<p>According to Martin County Sheriff John Budensiek, the Martin County Jail in Stuart is an ISGA-certified jail.<\/p>\n<p>The term IGSA stands for Intergovernmental Service Agreement.<\/p>\n<p>That means it&#8217;s a county-run jail that has a contract to house detainees.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"John Budensiek, Martin Co. Sheriff.{ } (CBS12 News){p}{\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/0a20e5b0-8747-4547-b303-e997aee18b76-mc3.jpg\"\/>John Budensiek, Martin Co. Sheriff.{ } (CBS12 News)<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are what we call an IGSA-certfied jail, one of the only IGSA-certified jails in the state of Florida. So as anybody arrests illegals in this seven-county area, they bring them to our jail, house them for up to 72 hours and move them out,&#8221; Sheriff Budensiek explained a few days ago.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re working on a story about this.  Among the questions, what are the seven counties?  How much is the federal government paying the Martin County Sheriff&#8217;s Office to house these detainees in the Martin County Jail?<\/p>\n<p>We hope to get answers to some of these questions later today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stuart, FL\/CBS12 News \u2014 Martin County has a role in housing illegal immigrants who are being detained in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-92592","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-port-st-lucie","9":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","10":"tag-port-st-lucie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}