Institutional Hearing Program (IHP): IHP enables INS to start the deportation process for jailed alien felons while they are incarcerated so that when they are released they may be immediately deported. Roughly 25 percent of the U.S. prison population are aliens. The program currently covers six Federal prisons in California. Texas. Louisiana. Kentucky. and Kansas. INS would like to expand it to cover state institutions in five other states. encompassing 80 percent of the state prison population. The expansion would require additional INS and Executive Office of Immigration Review (EIOR) personnel. This program will require $10.9 million in FY 94. D.
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