• 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.