Summary: When he walked over to a group of inmates sitting on couches and leaning against columns in the common area outside of their jail cells, Tom Butt, the mayor of Richmond, didn’t waste time with small talk. He asked the women — detainees of Immigration and Customs Enforcement — how they were being treated. “They get mad anytime you ask them for something,” one woman said in Spanish, referring to the deputies patrolling the cellblock.
