• roguetrick
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      1 year ago

      They’re for any federal court related enforcement. Prisoner transport, apprehending prisoners that escape, and servicing warrants for fugitives. Their historical basis is actually executing federal warrants for fugitives.

      • peopleproblems
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        61 year ago

        If I remember right from the last time I read about them, they are the oldest agency too. They usually have to take risky tasks, and were/are rather serious about their role. Stuff from prisoner transport, to nuclear weapon transport, and protecting students during the integration of African American students in the south.

      • @electric_nan@lemmy.ml
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        21 year ago

        I know a guy who was on the run for ten years over a drug case (LSD). He finally turned himself in because of how much the Marshals were harassing his sister.

    • @wolfpack86@lemmy.world
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      121 year ago

      No, there’s a good documentary about their other role in fugitive apprehension called The Fugitive.

      There was also an epilogue to it called US Marshals