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| Bucks County Prison Board Gains Three Members |
| By The Intelligencer |
| Published: 09/30/2002 |
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The former county sheriff, a lawyer and a victim's rights advocate became the newest members of the Bucks County Prison Oversight Board on Tuesday. Eight members of the board gathered in a special meeting to appoint three public representatives on the new board. Of the first five nominations, retired sheriff Larry Michaels, lawyer Jeffrey Finley and Karen Dopson, of the Network of Victim Assistance won enough votes to take seats on the board. Michaels won a three-year term, Finley a two-year term and Dopson a one-year term. Succeeding terms all will be three years. Michaels and Finley are Republicans. Dopson is a registered Democrat. Two other finalists did not win the votes needed. Lone Democratic Commissioner Sandy Miller and President Judge Barry McAndrews, a Republican, voted for Milton Berkes, a longtime Democratic leader and former state representative with decades of experience with the corrections system. He taught criminal justice at Temple University, served on a state corrections committee and is vice chairman of the Pennsylvania Prison Society. Five board members voted against Berkes and one abstained. Miller said later no one raised issues with Berkes during the 40-minute closed-door session to discuss the applicants' qualifications. 'With all due respect to everyone else who applied, these qualifications, this resume, certainly puts him in the front running,' she said after the meeting. 'If there's another reason for not appointing Milton Berkes, I wish someone would tell me what it was. Otherwise, I am left to think it's politics.' |
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