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| Jail moves ahead with fences |
| By Daily Courier |
| Published: 06/11/2008 |
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PENNSYLVANIA - Westmoreland County Prison officials hope that $12,900 fences will guard against hundreds of thousands of dollars in future medical bills. Warden John Walton told the county prison board this week that construction of fences on second-floor balconies in three units of the jail should begin sometime this month and be completed by mid-July. Officials conceived the idea last month after an inmate leaped from a 12-foot-high balcony and crashed into a set of metal tables. It was the second incident in the past year in which an inmate attempted suicide by leaping from a balcony. Earlier this year, the county received a $420,000 medical bill for an inmate who failed in an attempted suicide last summer by jumping from that same balcony. Read more. If link has expired, check the website of the article's original news source. |
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