By Brian Wright | Maricopa Monitor
A trickle-down effect of no longer having a contract to house federal detainees in the Pinal County jail is that there were too many employees at the jail.
Since Pinal County officials terminated a jail contract with Immigration and Customs Enforcement last July, 112 county employees have been laid off or quit because they saw the writing on the wall.
One former employee, Arthur Neal, spoke to the Pinal County Board of Supervisors last month. He said he didn’t understand the rationale behind some of the layoffs carried out by Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu.