She didn’t know it at the time, but it was the beginning of an ordeal that would see Karen handcuffed, shackled and sleeping on the floor of a locked cell, before being driven for 12 hours through the night to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention centre. Karen was incarcerated for a total of six weeks – even though she had been travelling with a valid visa.
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So why did ICE detain her, and keep her locked up for so long? A possible answer began to emerge over the weeks she was incarcerated. As Karen got to know the guards at the Northwest ICE Processing Center where she was held, she kept hearing the same thing from them: that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. “Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain – the guards told me that,” Karen says.

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Former Tennessee Highway Patrol troopers say there’s a reason so many innocent people have been arrested for DUI in Tennessee — internal quotas and pressure to make arrests.

Ashley Smith and Adam Potts, both former THP troopers, told WSMV4 Investigates that the repeated insistence to increase DUI arrests is inadvertently resulting in innocent people being charged with DUIs.

“This is corruption. We’re ruining people’s lives. We’re being forced to ruin people’s lives,” Smith said.

When asked if he had ever arrested a sober driver for DUI, Potts said, “Yes, sir. I’m sure I have.”