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| Schuylkill will move forward with plans for new structure in prison |
| By standardspeaker.com - Mark Gilger, Jr. |
| Published: 05/06/2013 |
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POTTSVILLE , PA - Schuylkill County will move forward with plans for a new structure inside the prison walls after members of the county prison board met with representatives from the state Department of Corrections last week. "The Department of Corrections was very cooperative," President Judge William E. Baldwin, who serves as prison board chairman, said Monday. "They have standards. We have not met all those standards, especially with the overcrowding, and they want us to submit a plan on how we are going to address it." The DOC started a nine-month-long vulnerability analysis of the facility in September. The study was issued due to the prison population exceeding its suggested capacity of 240 inmates for most of the past three years. The inmate population average for 2012 was 285, while for the first three months of 2013 it was 304. On Monday, Warden Gene Berdanier said there were 316 inmates at the prison. "Obviously, we are overcrowded and we have been that way for some time. We are in need of a solution now rather than later," Berdanier said Monday. "Overpopulation affects everything in operations. The staff has been doing a really good job of staying on top of everything and keeping inmate situations to a minimum." Read More. |
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