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PA Work Program Has Skeptics
By pittsburghlive.com
Published: 09/10/2010

Pennsylvania spends about $34,500 at each prison to provide security for off-site inmate work programs every year, a third of what the Allegheny County Jail warden said it could cost to start a similar program.

The state uses only one armed guard, at an entry-level salary, to supervise each team in its Community Work Program, Department of Corrections spokeswoman Susan McNaughton said Thursday. The program sends low-risk offenders from 26 of 27 state prisons to work on off-site manual labor projects.

Westmoreland County and Ohio routinely use one guard for each inmate crew working away from lockups, officials said.

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