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| Mold In Prison Warrants Changes |
| By lancasteronline.com |
| Published: 02/21/2011 |
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Mold recently found on a wall of the temporary housing unit of Lancaster County Prison might not have been an emergency issue if the unit weren't being used on a permanent basis for housing inmates. Due to overcrowding at the facility on East King Street in recent years, however, the unit, which can house 60 inmates, has been in constant use. "I've said it before and I'll say it again, the thing that makes that prison functionally obsolete is the number of people in it," said Scott Martin, chairman of the county commissioners and a member of Lancaster County Prison Board. "We could make that prison function the way it should if we could just reduce the population." A contractor began working Thursday to get rid of the mold, and Martin renewed his pitch for a new 384-bed, minimum security "community corrections re-entry center." Read More. |
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