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| Imates to state facilities temporary fix |
| By Altoona Mirror |
| Published: 06/06/2006 |
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HOLLIDAYSBURG, PA In an effort to lower the county's prison population, the administration at the Blair County Prison and the county sheriff's department will team up to send 12 inmates to state correctional facilities. Officials are acting on recent recommendations to send inmates who have been sentenced to long prison terms to the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections within a week of being sentenced. Blair County Warden Donald Ott said Monday Blair will send three inmates each Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday to state correctional institutions. Six women will go to the prison at Muncy while the men will go to Camp Hill. One of the inmates being sent is Andre Staton, sentenced last week to death for the murder of his estranged girlfriend. Ott said although everybody in the justice system is working to develop ways to lessen the local prison population, the unusually high number of trips to state facilities this week will bring only temporary relief. “There's too much of a crime influx in the city and all around us,” he said. Many inmates released from the Blair County Prison are coming back, he said. The Blair County Prison has housed more than 300 inmates per day this year and jumped to 329 last week. As of Monday, Blair County had 307 inmates in state prisons. By way of comparison, Cambria County had 245 inmates and Centre County had 196 inmates at the state level. Ott said he would like to see the prison population drop, but he predicted rates of incarceration would remain high. |
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