Families of Prisoners Support Group
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Got a very short letter from my daughter today who is in Lowell Prison in Ocala. She said "the secret service put a hold/detainer on me today". What does this mean?
For example, let's pretend I robbed a bank in Oklahoma. A few days later, I robbed another bank in Kansas. So I have committed crimes in two different jurisdictions----two different states.
Oklahoma arrests me, convicts me, and sends me to an Oklahoma prison. The state of Kansas also wants to prosecute me for the bank robbery I committed in that state, but they cannot, since I am in an Oklahoma prison.
So Kansas will send the Oklahoma prison system a piece of paper---a document---not to release me until they are notified and can pick me up for prosecution in their state. This document is known as a "detainer." The day of my release from the Oklahoma prison, instead of going home, there will be deputies or some other member of law enforcement from Kansas to cuff me and take me back to Kansas to face my Kansas charges.
The two jurisdictions are not always two different states, as they can also be two counties in the same state.
If she has a detainer, her current prison will not release her until the jurisdiction that filed the detainer is notified so they can pick her up. She will have to answer to those charges before she can be released.
The charges from the jurisdiction filing the detainer are not always serious charges; they can be unpaid court fines or even unpaid traffic tickets. But since your daughter has a detainer from the Secret Service, she obviously has charges pending from a federal prosecution or some business with the feds to take care of. The United States government wants her before she is released from Florida.
I was in an Oklahoma prison, and we had a lot of illegal aliens from Mexico imprisoned there, usually for drug charges. All of the illegals had a detainer from the ICE---Immigration and Customs Enforcement---sent to the Oklahoma prison system. This ensured that when the inmate finished his sentence in Oklahoma, ICE would be notified before they were released. ICE would usually pick them up on the day of their release and deport them.
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