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Jail review leads to funding questions
By meadvilletribune.com - Keith Gushard
Published: 04/12/2013

PENNSYLVANIA - MEADVILLE — Those who have reviewed an independent review of Crawford County jail operations agree with improving staff training and other suggestions, but a question remains about how to pay for it.

“It was very positive overall,” Chairman Francis Weiderspahn of Crawford County commissioners said Thursday. “Additional training needs to be addressed. As the report points out, it leaves us open to liability issues.”

The 52-page independent report compiled by representatives of the National Institute of Corrections recommended improvements in staff training and handling inmate grievances and noted the jail’s improving inmate health care situation. It was compiled following a two-day visit to the jail in March by NIC representatives who interviewed staff, inmates, prison board members and the public.

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